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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:11:16 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new license idea?
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At 12:52 PM 9/19/2000, j mckitrick wrote:

>I understand that there are 2 forks in windows development, but how are they
>used to bludgeon, since they are targeted at 2 different audiences?

Microsoft attempts to create proprietary forks of STANDARDS, not programs.
(Oh, and by "proprietary," I mean in the way it's PROPERLY defined, not in 
the way Stallman attempts to redefine it). The messes they created with
CHAP and Kerberos are examples. What they did was not innovative and not
backward-compatible.

--Brett



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