From: David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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: <m2g1jep3s7.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3533DD6A.B2EB8D16@kla-tencor.com
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.
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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 ` Christopher Green
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 [this message]
1998-04-16 0:00 ` David Masterson
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
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Ada generics are bad 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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