I was leaning toward a reference to tailored SAP, Peoplesoft, and the millions of lines of COBOL code that define our business rules, and that we wrote ourselves over the past 30 years. (Much of which is probably running every night!). Open source software can't replace that, but still has a home performing many other functions we've all taken on in recent years.
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:51, you wrote: Maybe they think that if they use open source software as part of their proprietary software that they would have to make their software open. AFAIK, it doesn't matter unless you distribute your software with the OSS stuff embedded (and thus no longer open). If I'm wrong... straighten me out... -jcf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Troth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat > > "The most oft-cited reason given by larger companies > > with 2,000+ employees for not installing Linux is that > > the proprietary nature of the software their companies depends > > upon precludes them from open-source development." > > > > I don't understand the foregoing. > > I don't either. > > -- RMT
