Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Andrej Presern (andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:10:43 +0100

Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > If they choose to pass on Linux instead, I also say good.
> > We're enough of an influence to be noticed, and we stuck to
> > our pricipals that helped get us here. No company created Linux.
> > No company can stop it, unless people get too greedy/stupid.
>
> I'm sure it feels really good to say that.
>
> Now, would you rather trade patents or be prohibited from writing
> good free software because you haven't any patents to trade?

When have people been prohibited from writing good free software because
they haven't got any patents to trade?

> We could really use a collection. It would be easy to get hardware
> specs out of reluctant vendors. :-) "All documentation or else!"

Vendors are already starting to see the importance of public
documentation (no documentation means no support means no users means no
sales). It's common sense, no need to threaten anyone.

Andrej

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Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si




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