bignickel
19th November 2003, 08:13 AM
http://www.msnbc.com/news/995422.asp?0dm=C17MT&cp1=1
These are the self-same d!ckheds who tried to buy UNIX code rights from one particualr company, and failed. Then they went ahead and said that they didn't have to; they already had the rights due to previous licensing. :rolleyes:
What amazes me even more is how completely honest he is about his hatred of GPL -> it's anti-business! How can business compete with something that belongs to the public? His argument seems to be: if it wasn't for GPL, he could just shake down Red Hat, instead of going after the end-users!
With the kind of logic displayed here, IBM could have sued every single IBM clone that came out in the 80s, reverse-engineering or no.
These are the self-same d!ckheds who tried to buy UNIX code rights from one particualr company, and failed. Then they went ahead and said that they didn't have to; they already had the rights due to previous licensing. :rolleyes:
What amazes me even more is how completely honest he is about his hatred of GPL -> it's anti-business! How can business compete with something that belongs to the public? His argument seems to be: if it wasn't for GPL, he could just shake down Red Hat, instead of going after the end-users!
With the kind of logic displayed here, IBM could have sued every single IBM clone that came out in the 80s, reverse-engineering or no.