On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:18 am, you wrote: > A dirty little secret is that this frequently means that they won't touch > it because they wouldn't have anyone else to sue if things go in the > toilet.
And if they bothererd to read the licenses that are on the proprietary software packages that they merrily click through, they'd understand they're up the creek without a paddle there as well. What proprietary license tells you that if everything goes bottoms-up on your installation, and you lose your company/job/hair/spouse/whatever, you should feel free to take the suppliers to court? None that I've ever read. In short, they busily proclaim they are for choice and freedom and competition, and then have the _cowardice_ of their _convictions_. That's what it's about - not something so inherently absurd that it can be refuted by examining the license of any two-bit proprietary package. But, if said businesses are that incompetent and useless, and use arguments so horribly inaccurate and absurd, why the h@#$ does anybody bother working for them? That'd be a drain on your compassion, I'd think. Wesley Parish > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source > Threat > > > Maybe they think that if they use open source software as part of their > proprietary software that they would have to make their software open. > AFAIK, it doesn't matter unless you distribute your software with the OSS > stuff embedded (and thus no longer open). If I'm wrong... straighten me > out... > > -jcf > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick Troth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:27 PM > Subject: Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source > Threat > > > > "The most oft-cited reason given by larger companies > > > with 2,000+ employees for not installing Linux is that > > > the proprietary nature of the software their companies depends upon > > > precludes them from open-source development." > > > > > > I don't understand the foregoing. > > > > I don't either. > > > > -- RMT -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
