20 Jun
2001
20 Jun
'01
16:23
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 10:57 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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.