begin  quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:13:47PM -0700:
> > Imagine the uproar of $despised_corporation took code out of the
> > public domain and relicensed it with their $oppressive_license -- there
> > would be an uproar.  Cries of "theft!" would ring out. Passionate
> > denunciations would be posted to slashdot. The skies would shake with
> > the wrath of the assembled geeks....
> 
> Um, no.  This happens all the time.  M$ got their TCP/IP stack
> from BSD code for example and skies didn't shake.

Well, it _almost_ shook. I recall some of the sentiment. "They can't
write good code ... just look, they're using BSD code!"

-Stewart "Exaggerating for humor since the dawn of time." Stremler

Attachment: pgpym8uDH8Di7.pgp
Description: PGP signature

-- 
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list

Reply via email to