I don't believe we are the intended target of Bill's/Microsoft' Open Source FUD campaign. It's the boardrooms, the managers, those that sign the cheques who for the most part will gobble anything Micros**t throws at them. Those are the targets of this debate. We all know Bill is talking sh*t but do they?!? Clifford Okoro We shall monitor the decline of the planet - 'Dubya' (Paraphrased) -----Original Message----- From: Curtis Rey [mailto:crrey@home.com] Sent: 22 June 2001 01:34 To: Steven Hatfield; Fred A. Miller; SuSE Linux List Subject: Re: [SLE] [news]Gates on open source: We've been misconstrued! "There are people who believe that commercial software should not exist at all--that there should be no jobs or taxes around commercial software at all," Gates said. While that's a small group, "the GPL was created with that goal in mind. And so people should understand the GPL. When people say open source, they often mean the GPL." Ya - ok Bill, whatever. For a man that's made billions you sure can sound like a f&*$ing moron sometimes. Maybe GPL has a deeper issue then that of a socialistic paradigm! Maybe it's geared to the furtherence of a technology outside of a commercial venue. I don't see anything in the GPL that states that you must give a product that's been developed away for free. I only see it addressing issue related to scientific and technologies in light of opening a knowledge base for the world communtiy to have access to the lastest developments. It's intended to follow the scientific model. Credit must be given to each developer and no one person or entity can deny the development community access to discoveries or inovations in this field. But then you know this don't you Bill. I'd think with all your money you could pay for a professional speech writer to help you from repeatedly sticking you foot in you mouth. What an idiot, and anyone that take your statements as fact is a greater idiot. Just MHO. Curtis On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:23 am, Steven Hatfield wrote:

On Wednesday 20 June 2001 10:57 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Gates on open source: We've been misconstrued!

Gates: Open-source GPL is 'Pac-Man-like'

"Gates said Microsoft's stance on open source "has been misconstrued in many ways. It's a topic that you can leap on and say, 'Microsoft doesn't make free software.' Hey, we have free software, the world will always have free software. I mean, if you characterize it that way, that's not right. But if you say to people, 'Do you understand the GPL?' (then) they're pretty stunned when the Pac-Man-like nature of it is described to them."

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.html

Asking Microsoft to explain the GPL is like asking the Devil to explain the Bible.

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