On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Michael Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Copyright is not supposed to protect a company from competition forever. > Microsoft is a monopoly because noone is allowed to work from any of > it's old OS'es. Efforts to replicate functionality and achieve driver > compatability are taking decades to get anywhere, see ReactOS. This is a really good point[1]. Attempts to replicate functionality and achieve driver compatibility are taking decades to get anywhere in GNU/Hurd too. I really wish someone would talk to the linux devs or the BSD folks and convince them to open their source. Jason [1] Okay, so not really. Hopefully I made my point :) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
