> Am Sat, 19 Sep 1998 schrieb jamal:
> >My 0.02 cents:
>
> and mine ...
>
> >I believe the days of Linux being marginalized are over. These
> >folks need us more than we need them. So arguements that "i'd rather have
> >a driver than have none at all" are meaningless.
> >We have enough mass to be taken seriously. With everyone else
>
> 100% agreement. The critical mass has long ago been reached, at least in the
> server market. The desktop market has yet to be taken ... :)
>
> >concern. The PC-DOS fiasco would be happening again with binary
> >drivers, unless:
> >- the consortium allows for the source code to be
> >inspected and agreed to by members of the Linux community prior to
>
> Who's 'the Linux community'?
> What do you have to do (or be) to belong in it? Qualifications? Tests? Grades?
>
> >If they want our support, i suggest they should be forced to go by our
> >terms.
>
> err ... no-one, absolutely no-one can prevent SCO from making their own Linux
> distribution with commercial support and drivers and selling it. It's all in
> the GPL, everyone can do what he wants as long as he doesn't forbid anyone else
> anything.
>
> For what it matters, no one would have a chance of forbidding Microsoft to make
> their own Linux distribution, port the Explorer and market it as NT 5.0.
>
> That, at least, is how _I_ understand the GPL. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
>
They would have to give away the source code _and_ they cannot charge for
the code, only for what they have written (Explorer?) and distribution
costs.
Vladimir Dergachev
>
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> ciao, Jens http://www.pinguin.conetix.de
>
> * Das Verhalten von Gates hatte mir bewiesen, dass ich auf ihn und seine
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