Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:47:37PM
> -0600:
>> On 11/21/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Imagine if M$ could steal any software they wished, without even
>> having
>> >to pretend that they're nice. Anything vaguely superior would
>> >immediately be incorporated into their codebase, albeit with M$
>> >characteristics added.
>>
>> So? I'd kind of like to see that happen, actually. And there are
>> many people who support the BSD licenses. I thought you were one of
>> them, Stewart. "It's more freedom than the GPL" and all that.
>
> Don't go injecting facts into my rhetoric!
>
> Ahem.
>
> There's a difference between give and take. BSD licenses give. The
> abolition of copyright seems like it's more of a "take".
This sounds like some theoretical discussion. It already happened.
Microsoft took BSD, and produced Xenix which they sold for a goodly
sum, as if it were something magical because it had their name on it.
I know all this, because my first computer ran Xenix 3.2F on Altos.
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