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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,88b676af04f3073d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,74b2c28810483a9c X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: future of proprietry source code (was: Ada generics are bad) Date: 1998/04/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 344596316 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <6gm6jc$fbp@newshub.atmnet.net> <6gs5qa$s46@newshub.atmnet.net> <6gt05f$rt8@drn.newsguy.com> <6gthdp$bje$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <3533DD6A.B2EB8D16@kla-tencor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1998-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: David Masterson 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. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany