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: 2003-08-16 04:43:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!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: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:43:01 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F3E18C5.8090708@noplace.com> References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <3F3A39E6.1070803@noplace.com> <3F3CDDDF.70205@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a5.f7.40.9c Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 16 Aug 2003 11:43:05 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:41571 Date: 2003-08-16T11:43:05+00:00 List-Id: 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." > -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================