Re: [ox] NYTimes.com Article: Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code
- From: cr iac-research.ch (Christoph Reuss)
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 23:46:05 +0200
New York Times schrieb:
The executive, Irving Wladawsky- Berger, an I.B.M. vice president,
said, "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and
as you know, we have a lot of lawyers."
Dasselbe sagte IBM damals auch, als sie auf DOS eingestiegen sind... ;-))
Microsoft, he said, in
support of the community ideal, already has what he called a
shared-source philosophy, which makes its source code available to
hardware makers, software developers, scientists, researchers and
government agencies.
Hört, hört! Und ich dachte, nur russische Cracker kämen in den Genuss... ;-)
He reserved his harshest criticism in the text of his speech for
the G.P.L., a software licensing model defined by programmer
Richard M. Stallman in 1984.
"RMS" ist wohl die Kurzform von "rm MS" ;-))
In a response to Microsoft's Mr. Allchin in February, Mr. Stallman
wrote:"The free software movement was founded in 1984, but its
inspiration comes from the ideals of 1776: freedom, community and
voluntary cooperation.
Hoffen wir, dass FS (und die GPL-Gesellschaft) im Gegensatz zu den
"ideals of 1776" *ohne* Ausbeutung, Ressourcen-Klau und Ausgrenzung
Anderer auskommt... (d.h. dass es weder "Sklaven" noch "Indianer der FS"
geben wird...)
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Naja, wohl eher "most authoritarian" ;-)
Gruss,
Christoph R.
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