From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 3 7:38:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A969E37B422 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 07:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f43Ec8803834; Thu, 3 May 2001 10:38:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 10:38:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Brett Glass Cc: Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418213837.00bcb100@localhost> Message-ID: <20010503103123.A3018-100000@blues.jpj.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The GPL hurts Microsoft's potential competitors far more than it > does Microsoft. Microsoft, which is now rich, can afford to throw > hundreds of programmers at a project to reimplement everything > from scratch. But small competitors need to concentrate on the > innovative parts of their code and re-use existing code for the > more mundane functions that no one should have to program again! > The GPL prevents them from doing this and thus cripples their > development process. If you want to see competition for Microsoft, > oppose the GPL. At http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html you can hear a Microsoft Corp. VP agreeing with you. Of course, you may again think that he really means something else. :) -- Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message