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[CLUG] Cox on Mundie

[CLUG] Cox on Mundie

Dermot Canniffe canniffd at student.cs.ucc.ie
Fri May 4 13:29:59 IST 2001


For that matter check out Linus' repost...

http://web.siliconvalley.com/content/sv/2001/05/03/opinion/dgillmor/weblog/torvalds.htm

regards,

:-Derm0

adam beecher (adam at iewebs.com):
> I've never met Alan Cox, but you gotta love the guy when he comes out with
> lines like:
> 
> "So is 'Microsoft Shared Source' a failed attempt at Open Source? Not
> really. In fact it is a demonstration of how far Microsoft are from grasping
> the entire concept of Open Source. IBM were providing source code in the
> 1960's under similar terms. VMS source code was available under limited
> licenses to customers from the beginning. Microsoft are catching up with
> 1960."
> 
> http://www2.usermagnet.com/cox/index.html
> 
> BTW, if any Red Hat lurkers are paying attention, Wide Open is dead as a
> dodo.
> 
> adam
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Cork maillist  -  Cork at linux.ie
> http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/cork

-- 
Dermot Canniffe
BScCS IV
University College Cork
____________________________________________________________________________
dermot.canniffe at student.cs.ucc.ie       http://student.cs.ucc.ie/01/canniffd


Dermot Canniffe's choice of Epitaph #7:
"Don't make me come down there!" :-God




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