From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-13 05:50:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:49:50 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F3A33EE.90900@noplace.com> References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b8.3d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 13 Aug 2003 12:50:05 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41380 Date: 2003-08-13T12:50:05+00:00 List-Id: Micro$oft can't "steal" the market - the market has to be seduced. And last time I checked, Micro$oft was not the *only* company selling software, so obviously other players are able to get in. Hence, this also disproves the claim that the GPL is the *only* way to get into the market. I think it would be more productive to look at what made Micro$oft a success and learn their strengths and weaknesses if your aim is to kill Micro$oft. If you really want them to go away, you'll have to become a good, skilled, knowledgable capitalist to do it. GPL won't kill Micro$oft. They'll adapt. Thats what businessmen do. You can't stop the game - just change the rules. MDC Luke A. Guest wrote: > > > Open source software only happened because of companies like M$ stealing > all of the market with shoddy software and not letting anyone else get any > way in unless you work for them. > > GPL is not the only way to develop software, but, it is the only way to > develop software that can get into the market. Simple as that. > > When M$ is dead, OSS will no longer need to exist and probably won't. > > Luke. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================