Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:53:22 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-BSD FUD Message-ID: <20000607205321.B2465@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <200006071518.IAA02379@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 08:18:59AM -0700 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000606184736.04b0f2f0@localhost> <200006071518.IAA02379@sharmas.dhs.org>
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True enough. Also, I guess one could call the thing FUD after all. I'd read the article and remembered only that it expressed his opinion of the license (misguided though it may be); but I'd forgotten what the title was. Arun Sharma said on Jun 7, 2000 at 08:18:59: > On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 18:47:56 -0600, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote: > > See > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2582875,00.html > > Here is the stuff I submitted using the talkback button. Hasn't > showed up yet. > > I think Mr Leibovitch's argument is flawed: > 1. He doesn't furnish any proof that Microsoft used Kerberos code. > 2. GPL "protects" code, not the open standard. Even though Kereberos > code was GPL'ed, Microsoft could write a proprietary version of it. > Sure, it would have been a little more difficult for MS to do it, > but given the resources they have, it's peanuts for them. > > One living example of this is their Java VM. They rewrote it from > scratch, wrote a better one than Sun's (technically) and then wrote > proprietary extensions to it. And GPL can't do anything to prevent > that. > > In that sense, Microsoft *can* write a Linux emulation layer for NT, > write a gcc compliant frontend to their compiler and have MS Linux. > GPL can't stop them. > > -Arun > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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