> Dang, you got me. So they have one good piece of proprietary software, > out of all of the IBM, HP, etc. giants :) I still think that is why they > are going Open Source. That and they are primarily hardware companies, > or services companies these days, and if Linux will sell their hardware > then they will by all means us it. Plus, on all their consulting > contracts that they are doing either their customers are demanding it, > or they are able to offer lower prices and win contracts by using it. I > don't believe for a second that HP and IBM are simply embracing Free > software because it is the ethical thing to do. Why are they still > selling tons of desktops/laptops with windows pre-installed? Why do I > still have to talk to a crappy exchange server to read my corporate > email?
So, if IBM HP don't write the world's great software, then who does? Mabey necesity is really the author of software. Physicists designed the first internet, AT&T is responsible for UNIX, C, and C++. No,...wait...I get it now! It's the FSF isn't it! It's all coming together! In the catacombs of Boston, Stallman has a secret army of developers. This GNU stuff was all a chicanery -- a trivial least damaging solution to a long ago forgotten threat of discovery. They have been writing the software that runs all of the world's computers since ancient times, all GPL'd. Surely by now they have agents in every software company. They've kept quiet about it until the time was ripe and would have unleashed such a malestrom of lawsuits that would make Microsoft tremble and palsy were it not for this SCO fiasco. Now, though a little preturbed over losing some shock and awe, they are patiently awaiting the impending day of reconing, and what will SCO say when it becomes known that UNIX was GPL'd all along! And Windows is GPL'd too, of course, and java, because GPL agents are at Sun, and BSD... So this is why the big dig is taking so long: the FSF or whatever they're really called must desperately enforce its secrecy. Justin ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
