Daniel Veditz wrote:
>
> "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
Could you trace back to riginal article and post the url for people to
read. (note the article) might make some of the regulars here grin a
little any way.
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