From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 3 05:03:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2BE106568B for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:03:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-125.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-125.bluehost.com [67.222.38.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBABD8FC18 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:03:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17731 invoked by uid 0); 3 Oct 2009 05:03:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2009 05:03:58 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=BoYothnd8Ojt0O2/uE0Mz9HoNSQexfq3uzByrGQz/8Mh8Ti8fPBhDn54j6mWhreJYLY3GQUm212kCiks42Z3oh3LVVH4V7U9TBJvhvKWoAu8096phS2yLc3GpzO1Qk9q; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mtwmk-0006Ny-87 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:03:58 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:56:40 -0600 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:56:40 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091003045640.GA28502@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <28f938b10910021725p7e615617xf21639d3fb7fcc9d@mail.gmail.com> <4AC6A26E.9080405@gmail.com> <4297a9020910021815p60858505w89abbfa909b99340@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4297a9020910021815p60858505w89abbfa909b99340@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:03:59 -0000 --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:15:07PM -0500, J Sisson wrote: >=20 > And if enough people petition Microsoft, we can get them to release Windo= ws > 7 source under the GPL. >=20 > 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." --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkrG2YgACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVnzACdFx9zXgO0/NHhn7vJXVePCyge fuMAnRur+3srsC/dj+RKiMIfS7VLl6fk =cNAk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--