From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 19 12:12:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F7CD37B423 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02153; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:11:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000919130855.00d548a0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:11:16 -0600 To: j mckitrick From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: new license idea? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000919195242.B72836@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000919124101.05089eb0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000919104443.00bf44b0@localhost> <20000919160157.A70731@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000919104443.00bf44b0@localhost> <20000919175403.B71735@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000919124101.05089eb0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message