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At 10:31 PM 5/4/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi fellow PLUGgers,
>(cc PH Linux Newbie forum)
>
>Here are Linus Torvald's views on what Mundie said in his speech attacking
>the open source philosophy. I grabbed this from
>
><http://web.siliconvalley.com/content/sv/2001/05/03/opinion/dgillmor/weblog/torvalds.htm>
>
>which I found via a Slashdot post. It's pretty good, IMO. :)
>
> --> Jijo
>
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>Microsoft's Attack on Open Source: Linus Torvalds Replies
>Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2001
>
>I asked Linus Torvalds what he thought of Craig Mundie's speech about open
>source. His reply:
>
>I guess I'm not all that surprised. The basic argument seems to be that
>it's good for the economy to charge for intellectual property, so open
>source software cannot be good, while Microsoft is the most far-thinking
>company around and is doing it all for the good of the public.
>
>Gee, what a surprise.
>
>His claim seem to focus on the assertion that research and development is
>founded on the principles of "the importance of intellectual property
>rights". Which is entirely ignoring the fact that pretty much all of
>modern science and technology is founded on very similar ideals as open
>source.
>
>When Mundie wants you to think about all the work that companies have done
>in order to get patents, he also wants you to forget about all the work
>done by people like Einstein, Rutherford, Bohr, Leonardo da Vinci and a
>lot of other people who have done a lot more for humanity than most
>companies have ever done.
>
>And those people did it for the love of the art, not for some petty
>"intellectual property rights". Yet Mundie with a straight face claims
>that those intellectual property rights are the thing that drives science
>and technology. He seems to think that MS has done more for the US economy
>than the discovery of the electron ever did.
>
>His "shared source philosophy" is nothing but the status quo for
>Microsoft, and trying to make that status quo sound more like the open
>source model. He obviously doesn't "get" it.
>
>The strength of open source is not the source, but the intellectual
>property that goes with it - exactly the part that Mundie seems to hate so
>much. The fact that when you get involved in open source, you get equal
>rights to be involved. You can be another Leonardo da Vinci, you aren't
>relegated to just paying for viewing his works.
>
>I wonder if Mundie has ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton? He's not only
>famous for having basically set the foundations for classical mechanics
>(and the the original theory of gravitation, which is what most people
>remember, along with the apple tree story), but he is also famous for how
>he acknowledged the achievement:
>
>"If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the
>shoulders of giants".
>
>One of the greatest scientists of our time, having done more for modern
>technology (and thus, by the way, for the modern economy) that Microsoft
>will ever do, acknowledged the fact that he did so by being able to use
>the knowledge (what we now call "intellectual property") gathered by
>others.
>
>Mundie throws all that away, because he wants Microsoft to own it all, and
>make tons of money on it.
>
>I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for
>almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less.
>
>Linus
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