Alberto Monteiro wrote: >> Other than by breaking the M$ "pay to play" licensing paradigm and >> leveling the playing field for open source developers? >> > Who says M$ won't have users pay to play M$-Linux? It's possible > that the worse nightmare of the free-software <s>jihad</s> community > happens: M$ may embrace, extend and then extinguish Linux.
I'm sure MS would love to do that, but the GPL licensing on Linux will make it very difficult to accomplish. To-date, no one who has been caught misappropriating Linux for a commercial product has successfully gotten past the GPL. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
