From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 20 0:53:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 101F637B422 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:53:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 80529 invoked by uid 100); 20 Apr 2001 07:53:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15071.60153.512245.200296@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:53:29 -0500 To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Meyer , dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419200357.0469ba40@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419144936.00bd5850@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419143024.045d2100@localhost> <200104192013.f3JKDfm73628@ns1.unixathome.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419140150.045176b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419200357.0469ba40@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass types: > At 03:00 PM 4/19/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > >Not true. The largest producer of software in the US through the early > >80s never produced a single product, and they're still around. > I sincerely doubt that. Feel free to doubt facts if they don't agree with your world view. They're still true. I said through the early 80s because that was when I first became interested in how much not being able to copyright it would reduce the production of software (ans: about as much as not being able to copyright it would reduce the design of non-digital typefaces). The only real change in software production since then is that Gates has made a very visible fortune selling crappy software. So anyone who writes crappy software think they deserve the same, and they whine about it when they realize there's not much market left between crappy software from Gates and free software from other sources. So I wouldn't be surprised if the same statement still held true - for the same producer, even. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message