On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:15:07PM -0500, J Sisson wrote: >> >> And if enough people petition Microsoft, we can get them to release Windows >> 7 source under the GPL. >> >> Reality called...your request to ignore it was denied. > > Actually, we *could*. The problem is the definition of "enough". I'm > sure that if you got 100% of the Windows users in the world to do so, > Microsoft top brass would be hard-pressed to avoid acquiescing. > Meanwhile, I'm sure that if you got 1% to do so, it would raise some > eyebrows at Microsoft, but utterly fail to get MS executives to put a > moment's thought into making that kind of licensing change, except > perhaps to laugh at it. The problem is figuring out the exact threshold, > somewhere between 1% and 100%. > > In other words, to quote an old off-color joke: > > "We've already established you're a prostitute, my dear. Now we're > just haggling over the price." > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] >
Better pray for Theora's mass adoption on streaming sites :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
