On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:15:21PM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
[snip] > He may be a little too impressed with them, but I'm strongly getting the > impression that you yourself are having a knee-jerk reaction to the M-word. I'll be the first to admit that I do have a knee-jerk reaction to anything Microsoft. And, frankly, I make no apologies for it. But, for the sake of averting a thread-from-hell, I'll refraining from detailing it all -- I'm sure much of it has been discussed on this list ad-infinitem. [snip] > You are starting to sound a bit paranoid there. Simply because he likes > something Microsoft did not mean the world is coming to an end. If it did, > we would already be screwed: > > $ cd /usr/src/linux > $ grep -ir microsoft * | wc -l > 166 Yeah, I knew about that. Not as big a deal, since the code was GPL, those developers contributed and did not violate the GPL. They could conceivable 'pull' their contributions, but since they are GPLed, the snapshot before they pull it would allow continued development by someone else. Besides, I doubt that relatively low number of occurences of the company name would threaten Linux to it's core. If worse came to worse pull all of their contributions and serious doubt the impact to the kernel would be even noticeable. With .NET, M$ has already warned (several months ago) when asked about Mono, that they would do what they could to 'protect their intellectual property,' even though they were paying lip service to Mono as a good thing. Think software patents (which already threaten us), think DMCA. > > I actually find his latest statements (quoted in The Register) ... > > The Register has a tendency to be, shall we say, somewhat incendiary in > their selection and presentation of material. While I like reading it for > recreation, I take everything there with a good deal of salt. > > > Telling people to 'get over it' when referring to our issues with M$ shows > > that he has little or no experience getting royally screwed by them in > > business as so many people have been through. > > Do you have context? I am interested in reading it. Here's the link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23919.html -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
