To avoid hi-jack of my thread, here is Dicks comments for replying

1. Dick Wall  :
Incidentally, I was willing to give Microsoft the benefit of the
doubt
with regards to the code contribution and was pleasantly surprised.
In
the days since it appears that they contributed back to avoid a GPL
violation though. Not wrong, but not the altruism we were led to
believe initially. Microsoft has a long pattern of attacking linux
(Linux is a cancer anyone) so is it any surprise I am not exactly
their biggest fan. If they really want to make a good contribution,
how about the video codecs Moonlight needs to be on an even footing?

2. Dick Wall :
Casper, can you elaborate on what you thought the FUD was? Sure - we
ramble a lot and opinions are by their nature subjective, but what do
you believe was FUD (which generally I take to mean lies?). Was it
the
ISO story? I think we had most of the broad facts right about that
one
even if we had to look up the details. Certainly there are enough
irregularities around that whole thing to be suspicious. Was it
something else? It's all well and good to wave the FUD flag around,
but how can we have a discussion if you don't call anything out
specifically?
Dick

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The 
Java Posse" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to