David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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. >
Yes, originally, that's correct. Something to do with AT&T and a printer driver, I think. I was just speaking of Bill...since back in those days the profile for Stallman's project was lower too. That is to mean lower than after the mid eighties, when desktop/workstation unix emerged, not to mention later with linux. The "and others" are significant. If it wasn't for Bill, linux probably would not be where it is today. Putting on my asbestos suit now :-) Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
