Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Oh, no! Absolutely not! I in no way want to discourage charitable works. 
What I'm laughing at is the notion that somehow or other "dumping" is 
"unfair" - unless the "dumping" is done by the FSF in the form of Linux. 
Suddenly then it becomes "fair"? O.K. I'll laugh at the double-standard. 
If "dumping" is "bad" then Microsoft has every right to cry about Linux 
being "unfair".

As for Microsoft crying about how they can't buy Linux and crush it, 
there may be some truth to that. But the GPL is not the only way to 
insure that. Suppose I wrote "Marin's OS" and it started becoming 
enormously popular. Bill gates comes around and wants to buy it from me 
and I don't want Microsoft to crush it. I say "O.K. You can buy it for 
Thirty Seven Trillion Dollars and you have to kiss my ass on PBS during 
their fund raisers for the next 5 years." You think he'd get the 
message? :-)

The point being that you can have an OS out there that is a for-profit 
concern that is capable of competing with Microsoft and might even win 
(thus making *that* company the next "Evil Empire") and it doesn't 
require the GPL to do it.

MDC


Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> Yes, one should outlaw gifts, voluntary work and non-profit organisations.
> They are a menace to the corporate world and bring only grief and sorrow
> to the fat cats. 
> 
> :-)
> 
> Actually what M$ is whining about is: "Buhu, we cannot buy Linux and
> smash it, buhu we cannot use their code in our software. Buhu, it is
> unfair. *sniff* I'll do some more digging in the sand in the playground."
> 


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