re julio, Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 22:14 schrieb Julio:
I think that what they are trying to do is to get open source programmers to do all the debugging for them and when M$ thinks the product is ready they'll make it proprietary and rip it away from the open source community, at least that's what I think they'll do, so if any open source programmers can see this message, do it for the sake of OSS and don't cooperate with M$, unless they pay you guys a lot!! =) well that's my opinion anyway!!
Julio If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing!
well, typical m$...... they never developed any software themselves, instead they alwas steal/buy software (or whole companys)..... in fact, m$ isnt able to develop anything, because they never really had. this started with dos which they bought from a student (including the student) for a few bucks. at this time it was originally "qdos" -> Quick and Dirty Operating System guess why their os's are so weak...;-) but serious : if they really taken away code from the open source community, i think (according to the gpl) they are not allowed to sell this piece of software then. even if they f**ck it up with propitary extensions, its still based on a gpl product and must therefore be free (including source !!) if they do not so, they are really breaking laws by not following the gpl-license !! greets, chris -- visit me at http://mamalala.de