>>>>> "SJ" == Seth Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SJ> The end game is upon us. The apolitical BSD license is now
SJ> being pitted directly against the GPL license, by M$ itself.
SJ> It's so very sly. Just think about it. But if we see it
SJ> right up, we *might* be able to counter it. I don't know:
SJ> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/06/27/dotnet.html
So, I'm just having a really hard time giving a shit about this. Why
do I care about making software that works with Microsoft .NET? Why
would I actually want a Microsoft .NET common language thingy, or
c-sharp compiler, or (gag) ECMAScript compiler? Are you going to use
any of these things? I'm not going to use any of those things.
People who want to make GPL'd versions will be able to, without
recourse to Microsoft source code. Thus has been the Way of Free Men
since the dawn of Freedom. Beaujolais for them.
Does anyone really spend a lot of cycles on bogus proprietary
Microsoft standards? Does anyone have a Free Visual Basic compiler? A
Free DCOM implementation? I don't think they do, or even should.
Prediction: .NET is going to eat a shit pie (remember Blackbird?
Anybody?), and if a "web of services" is going to open up, it's going
to be based on open standards.
SJ> Ask me what I mean, if you don't see what I'm saying. I'm
SJ> pissed and anxious as heck about this.
I guess I don't see what you mean. I'm no Microsoft apologist, but I
think people ascribe to Microsoft more deviously subtle motives than
are actually there.
~Mr. Bad
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