From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 3 7:46:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0647F37B422 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 07:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA07135; Thu, 3 May 2001 08:46:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010503084521.046a6710@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 08:46:42 -0600 To: Trevor Johnson From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Cc: In-Reply-To: <20010503103123.A3018-100000@blues.jpj.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418213837.00bcb100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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