On 1/12/2011 4:16 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Apple, for example, went proprietary with the freedom provided by
BSD contributions in XNU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
Look at Apple now: A niche player in computers, and highly
successful with iPods, iPhones and the like.
We tend to minim
On 2011-01-12, David Kastrup wrote:
> RJack writes:
>
>> On 1/11/2011 5:41 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>
>>> Why do you think it is that BSD Unix has not held its own in
>>> competition with GNU/Linux?
>>
>> One acronym: IBM.
>>
>> IBM could not successfully compete with Windows NT with their AIX
In gnu.misc.discuss RJack wrote:
> On 1/11/2011 5:41 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Why do you think it is that BSD Unix has not held its own in
>> competition with GNU/Linux?
> One acronym: IBM.
> IBM could not successfully compete with Windows NT with their AIX line
> running on the WinTel PC.
On 1/11/2011 5:41 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Why do you think it is that BSD Unix has not held its own in
competition with GNU/Linux?
One acronym: IBM.
IBM could not successfully compete with Windows NT with their AIX
line running on the WinTel PC. Microsoft had screwed over IBM and their
OS/2
RJack writes:
> On 1/11/2011 5:41 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
>> Why do you think it is that BSD Unix has not held its own in
>> competition with GNU/Linux?
>
> One acronym: IBM.
>
> IBM could not successfully compete with Windows NT with their AIX
> line running on the WinTel PC. Microsoft had s
In gnu.misc.discuss RJack wrote:
> On 1/11/2011 3:24 PM, Kari Laine wrote:
>> Ok alexander,
>> But without FSF we probably wouldn't have Linux. At least it won't
>> be as functional as it is today. There are billions of dollars worth
>> of GPLed software available to every one of us.
> Uhhh...
Kari Laine writes:
> Ok alexander,
>
> I bite, let's discuss about the FSF. I don't know enough about it.
> I know the good software they made possible. I gather I donated some
> money to them back in (don't remember the year). Do you mean they stole
> my money to get FAT. Or what exactly is your
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Nice paper:
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1586580&download=yes
> (Why License Agreements Do Not Control Copy Ownership: First Sales and
> Essential Copies)
> I especially like this part:
> "When "license" is used a
Ok alexander,
I bite, let's discuss about the FSF. I don't know enough about it.
I know the good software they made possible. I gather I donated some
money to them back in (don't remember the year). Do you mean they stole
my money to get FAT. Or what exactly is your point of GNG Site?
I find shar
On 1/11/2011 3:24 PM, Kari Laine wrote:
Ok alexander,
But without FSF we probably wouldn't have Linux. At least it won't
be as functional as it is today. There are billions of dollars worth
of GPLed software available to every one of us.
Uhhh... "...probably wouldn't have Linux" ?
W
Nice paper:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1586580&download=yes
(Why License Agreements Do Not Control Copy Ownership: First Sales and
Essential Copies)
I especially like this part:
"When "license" is used as a noun in the copyright context, it means
something like, "a gr
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