Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but if the GPL could be broken, I would think it would have been Microsoft > and all its bazillions of lawyers to have already done so.
Naw. Firstly, Linux has only reached critical mass as a viable commercial enterprise in the past year. Secondly, it's too hot right now for them politically and legally to get into the act; they have a Judge watching them very closely. Their screen is full. But you don't think Corel has a respectable army of litigators at its beck and call? One thing that's become clear from the Debian/Corel joint misadventure to date is that the lawyers at Corel are kept very busy, and have the final word on everything. I'm not complaining about that; it's as it should be in a public company; it's all about liability and shareholder's interests. I'm just saying I *fear* that no one is exercising similar 'due diligence' to protect Debian's interests in this fandango. > > ...and it won't be nice to watch... > What do you mean? What do you find hard to imagine? That Linux will be forked into several competing proprietary incarnations, much as Unix has? What were the job prospects last year for a c/c++ programmer who insisted on working on GNU/Linux-based projects? This year? Next year? How much investment capital flowed into Linux-related enterprises last year? This year? Next year? C'mon Mark! Connect the dots! <g> Money changes people. And money talks and bs walks. That's all I'm saying. -- Bob Bernstein http://members.home.net/ruptured-duck at Esmond, R.I., USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] "RMS's "curmudgeon-like" griping that he didn't like the term "Open Source" looked silly to many last year; it's not looking so dumb today..." Christopher B. Browne
