From: David Masterson <David.Masterson@kla-tencor.com>
Subject: Re: future of proprietry source code (was: Ada generics are bad)
Date: 1998/04/16
Date: 1998-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35366E1D.51EB6CF2@kla-tencor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2g1jep3s7.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
David Kastrup wrote:
>
> David Masterson <David.Masterson@kla-tencor.com> writes:
>
> > The current interest in "free" software is largely due to a backlash
> > against Microsoft. If Microsoft succeeds in quelling this backlash,
> > then the fervor for "free" software will die down (it won't go away)
> > and so will the progress that GPL'd software is making.
>
> The problem is that the "backlash" is not a mere temporary greed
> symptom but is caused by the exact business practices that make
> Microsoft successful at the inconvenience of their users and the
> global market.
>
> If it is going to stop, the business practices have to change to the
> better. But actual developments seem to go openly into the other
> direction.
Which suggests... what?
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-08 0:00 Ada generics are bad Glenden Lee
1998-04-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-04-09 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-04-13 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-04-13 0:00 ` future of proprietry source code (was: Ada generics are bad) Fergus Henderson
1998-04-14 0:00 ` David Masterson
1998-04-16 0:00 ` David Kastrup
1998-04-16 0:00 ` David Masterson [this message]
1998-04-17 0:00 ` David Kastrup
1998-04-17 0:00 ` campo
1998-04-16 0:00 ` Tim Smith
1998-04-17 0:00 ` Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG
1998-04-18 0:00 ` Bill Gribble
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1998-04-21 0:00 ` William Tanksley
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Ada generics are bad Christopher Green
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-04-15 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Al Christians
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