"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
>
> Chuck Simmons wrote:
> >
> > If Ben makes a buck here and there on this and he follows the license
> > then more power to him. He's doing what was intended in the first place.
> >
> > Open source is not anticapitalistic. It is antimonopolistic. It levels
> > the playing field and if you can find a good business model, you have
> > caught on to what it means.
>
> Your response is the exact oposite of what two big wheels from Microsoft
> said. Basically they said its absolutely impossible for any software
> created by open source to make "any" money.
There's no doubt programmers and companies can make money off open source
software, but it's a far different business model than Microsoft's. No
wonder they don't like it.
Most of their attacks were aimed at the GPL license and the philosophy of
the Free Software Foundation, completely ignoring the fact that the term
"Open Source" was invented specifically because lots of "fropen sourware"
developers wanted to distance themselves from the political aims of the FSF.
Slashdot.org and other places had lots of links to various responses to
Microsoft's speech.
-Dan Veditz
