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[Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pueblo Native wrote:
> I guess there was a poison pill in those patents we pilfered:
>
> http://www.bangkokpost.com/090507_Database/09May2007_data05.php
>
> Alliterations aside, the only "myth" is in Hilf's own brain.  There may
> be some developers out there who wore tye-dye t-shirts, travel in
> Winnebago vans, and had a taste for the tree, but there were just as
> many buttoned up developers that have never listened to the Grateful
> Dead once.
>
> And I love this line from that article: Hilf said that the Linux
> phenomenon had nothing to do with Linux, but rather it had a lot to do
> with Apache, MySQL and PHP. It was those applications which pulled Linux
> up with it, the "Visual Basic of open source."
>   
Look, I'm happy for people to speculate until the cows come home, but 
please mark non-technical posts as [OT] or take them to the OT list.
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