Lan Barnes wrote:
On Tue, March 4, 2008 1:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:48:31AM -0800, David Brown wrote:
Declaring something to be public domain and disseminating it freely seem
to
be sufficient.
RMS doesn't think so.
Remember, M$ took lots of src that had been put in the bublic domain,
cleaned it up, and closed it again.
UC Berkeley Ingres project ---+---> PostgreSQL
|
+---> M$ SQL Server
If putting things in the public domain were enough, there would be no GPL
and no FSF.
Microsoft is guilty of lots of things, but not that. The original M$ SQL
Server was derived from Sybase in a business "partnership" that allowed
M$ to port Sybase code to the M$ Windows platform. It was so compatible
that in the early days you could directly use Sybase clients against M$
SQL Server. Somewhere I have notes that showed how to do that in Linux.
Gus
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