Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 19:12:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), mike@smith.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The halloween document again. Message-ID: <199811030312.TAA03501@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 19:10:37 PST." <199811030310.TAA27486@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > That's only part of the story. The report also recommends: > > > > > Fold extended functionality into commodity protocols / services and > > > create new protocols > > > > > > Linux's homebase is currently commodity network and server > > > infrastructure. By folding extended functionality > > > (e.g. Storage+ in file systems, DAV/POD for networking) into > > > today's commodity services, we raise the bar & change the rules > > > of the game. > > > > I think that this would be significant ammunition against Microsoft in > > the suit. > > > > a court might cosnider this plan of "implement and extend" > to be innovation.....the technical issues and incompatiblilites > would not be relevant to a court > > i aint a lawyer, but i have seen one played on tv. ;) The counterargument to this is "such a policy of implement-and-extend can be demonstrated only to be effective if the implementor-and-extendor has monopolostic control", and "it can be demonstrated that Microsoft employs lots of smart people that must already know this". -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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