Ian Clarke wrote on 5/13/01 5:29 pm:
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>> The open source
>community has helped to
>create Microsoft, they take
>your work, and add it to
>their own. Clearly violating
>the GNU license. And they
>don't even respond in kind.
>
>I am not aware of any
>evidence that Microsoft has
>taken GPL code and
>redistributed it under a
>different license - can you
>point me to some?
There was a rumor that the reason Win2000 is so stable is because
they used Linux source, but I don't beleive it.
<>
>Software patents have no
>place in an Open Source
>project.
I'm not so sure. Using patents to defend your ideas from harm
is not an abuse. I would have no problem with a patent that says
'you can use this idea as long as the finished product is under
the GPL'.
Timm Murray
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Theory is when you know how it works, but fails. Practice is when something
works, but you don't know why. Here, Theory and Practice come together.
Nothing works, and nobody knows why.
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