From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 20 0:32:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1247337B403 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:32:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA58623; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:32:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: "Jeremiah Johnson" , Subject: Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect) References: <01061920032100.00956@alpha1.moonbase> <3.0.6.32.20010620002300.00953c40@mail85.pair.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 20 Jun 2001 09:32:47 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010620002300.00953c40@mail85.pair.com> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "G. Adam Stanislav" writes: > At 10:03 2001-06-20 +1000, Jeremiah Johnson wrote: > > There needs to be a license that says something to the effect of "Anyone > > can use/buy/sell/modify/distribute this software with or without source > > code except Microsoft." > Heh, I went through a period of time (about a decade ago), when I > licenced my software exactly that way. Though I also excluded IBM. As tempting as it may be, it's illegal... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message