On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 01:29:02AM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote: > > Right, and if they want to do so using Open Source(tm), they have to > abide by the rules. And that means "free [their] software".
Yeah, that's one fundamental prerequisite. But that will not mean that we "choose to play with them", to stretch the analogy. There is a lot more behind it: for example, good faith and mind share. I wonder if the members of the OSI board read the "reflections about the past year" by Frank Hecker from Mozilla. http://www.mozilla.org/mozilla-at-one.html (It seems thatat least ESR read it, judging by the "open letter to Microsoft" [[on that I better not comment]]) The point is that the company must make a good effort to go Free Software, or the bazaar model doesn't work because of lack of participiation. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
