Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 10:38:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <20010503103123.A3018-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418213837.00bcb100@localhost>
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> The GPL hurts Microsoft's potential competitors far more than it > does Microsoft. Microsoft, which is now rich, can afford to throw > hundreds of programmers at a project to reimplement everything > from scratch. But small competitors need to concentrate on the > innovative parts of their code and re-use existing code for the > more mundane functions that no one should have to program again! > The GPL prevents them from doing this and thus cripples their > development process. If you want to see competition for Microsoft, > oppose the GPL. At http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html you can hear a Microsoft Corp. VP agreeing with you. Of course, you may again think that he really means something else. :) -- Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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