From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Thu 03 May 2001 - 14:03:50 IST
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:42:46PM +0100, Stephane Dudzinski wrote:
> A few hours ago, a friendly journalist tipped me that Craig Mundie
> of Microsoft is going to make a major speech in New York tomorrow
> attacking open-source software -- specifically, attacking the GNU
> General Public License. This speech is probably intended to define
> Microsoft's party line on open source, and to shift the terms of the
> debate over it to one that Microsoft thinks it can win.
please consider the following two actions:
a) microsoft is spelled microsoft. m$ is just silly (worse
yet it requires the use of the shift key). if you want to be
disparaging consider "a large redmond based legacy software
vendor."
b) since this is in new york, it would be rather nice if the kind
and gentle people of new york could be given more correct
information. the new york times accepts letters to the editor
via this address: letters at domain nytimes.com. a nice polite letter
explaining what the gnu gpl is, what open source is, and what
copyright violations like napster and illegal copies of ms office
are might add a little light to the debate.
kevin
-- kevin at domain suberic.net "nobody likes a monkey on their back. i had fork()'ed on 37058400 three. they were cramping my style. it was meatspace place: work time to get rid of them." http://suberic.net/~kevin --porter, "payback"
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