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Date:      Thu, 03 May 2001 08:46:42 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010503084521.046a6710@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20010503103123.A3018-100000@blues.jpj.net>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010418213837.00bcb100@localhost>

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At 08:38 AM 5/3/2001, Trevor Johnson wrote:
  
>> The GPL hurts Microsoft's potential competitors far more than it
>> does Microsoft. Microsoft, which is now rich, can afford to throw
>> hundreds of programmers at a project to reimplement everything
>> from scratch. But small competitors need to concentrate on the
>> innovative parts of their code and re-use existing code for the
>> more mundane functions that no one should have to program again!
>> The GPL prevents them from doing this and thus cripples their
>> development process. If you want to see competition for Microsoft,
>> oppose the GPL.
>
>At http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html you can
>hear a Microsoft Corp. VP agreeing with you.

Ironically, yes. Just because someone is a Microsoft VP does not
mean that what he says is ALWAYS false.

These articles say it better, though, and are worse reading:

http://davenet.userland.com/2000/09/15/whatIsOpenSource

http://www.usermode.org/docs/tangledweb.html

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3297/1/

http://www.usermode.org/docs/wordstoavoid.html

--Brett Glass


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