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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-16 04:59:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tdcnorge.no!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <3F3A39E6.1070803@noplace.com> <3F3CDDDF.70205@noplace.com> <3F3E18C5.8090708@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1061035167 8204 129.241.83.78 (16 Aug 2003 11:59:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:59:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41573 Date: 2003-08-16T11:59:27+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > 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. No GPL has little or no part of that. It is because Linux isn't a company but the collective works of thousands of people it cannot be bought. How M$ is trying to crush it is to spread FUD and mess upp any standard out there. > 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. ACK, see above. -- �I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet. So who am I to judge.� - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radioplay)