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,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-07 21:38:41 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 04:38:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.190.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 989296721 24.20.190.201 (Mon, 07 May 2001 21:38:41 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 21:38:41 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7299 Date: 2001-05-08T04:38:41+00:00 List-Id: >For anyone who doesn't know what Microsoft comments we are referring to, see: >http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/craig/05-03sharedsource.asp > >There's a response from Alan Cox posted at >http://news.wideopen.com/fc/2-118,209-119,509967 > >and a response from Linus at >http://web.siliconvalley.com/content/sv/2001/05/03/opinion/dgillmor/weblog/torvalds.htm Both Cox and Linus seem to frame the question as Open Source vs Microsoft, as if MS was the only alternative, and commodity shrink wrap the only kind of software. They would also be more convincing if they cut out the illogical statements and emotional ad hominem remarks: Cox: >he mysteriously forgot >The obsession >Craig is apparently unable to grasp the concept >Craig also appears so obsessed >Apparently Craig also has problems reading licenses. >strangely neglects Linus: >Mundie seems to hate so much >I wonder if Mundie has ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton? >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.