In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linonut
<linonut@xxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:06:23 -0600
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> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Notice the fact that the show was /ABOUT/ /FREE/ /SOFTWARE/.
>>
>> Linux: that thing Microsoft spend $billions on hiding.
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/fueling_the_network_effect
>
> "By admitting that one of the strongest motivations to select the GPL
> was the announcement made last week by Novell and Microsoft,
> suggesting that free and open source software wasn't safe unless a
> royalty was being paid. As an executive from one of those companies
> said, "free has to have a price."
>
> Sounds about like Microsoft. And SCO.
>
Hmm....sounds an awful lot like Benjamin Franklin's comments, only
applied to software. Still, a lot of evil can flourish when good
programmers do nothing. ;-)
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