On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, will hill wrote: > On 2003.04.08 12:36 Brad N Bendily wrote: > > > > I was reading an article on osnews.com and ran across this, I read > > some of the mentioned article, it's an interesting read so far. > > > > Gak, mother of fluf from 1999. Microsoft not a monopoly? I'm laughing out > loud.
This article wasn't just about microsoft not being a monopoly, there were linux discussions too. I think Microsoft has committed a lot of unruly practices, but just people buy their products doesn't make them a monopoly. Sure forcing PC makers to put their product on every PC they sell is a monopolistic thing to do. But just because they have a popular product doens't make someone a monopoly. bb > > If you are looking to kill time, I suggest reading any of the following > articles. They are written by people who write software rather than novels. > > The history of BSD: > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html > > The same history from a different perspective: > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html > > Why software should not have owners: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html > > Interesting design philosophy has been written by the folks who developed C, > C with classes and Unix. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
