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
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