Jim Wilson writes: > <OT> > We have a lot to thank Bill Gates for, including the way he > (especially) and others got under Richard Stallman's (and others) > skin with their shrink-wrap revolution. We owe Bill a debt of > gratitude for making sure that open source became a popular idea, > even for windows users and developers. :-D
Hmm -- as I recall, it was AT&T and Sun that got under Stallman's skin, especially when AT&T started requiring a license for the Unix code. Microsoft was barely on the radar screen then, any more than, say, Nintendo is today for computer researchers. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
