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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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