On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 02:46:24PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> > http://linuxtoday.com/stories/6521.html
> 
> Funny... now the Linux users get a taste of how they treat other
> (non-Linux) Unices.

The thing I don't get is "who cares?" I used to be a Mac person and I
loved using MetroWerks CodeWarrior, but now I'm a Unix geek and I'm
quite content with gcc/egcs/whadda-whadda-bing-bang-cc.

But, obviously, the big issue is Red Hat's commercial ambitions. Go figure.
It's a company, and it wants "competitive advantage." That's a stunner.

Maybe folks will someday realise that the ideas behind Open Source are totally
antithetical to capitalism and competition, a system which at its essential
core requires a disparity of knowledge that cannot be had when you're
sharing your "competitive tools."

But then, I believe that the great seething mass of "Open Source enthusiasts"
are loving the free beer and are fairly unconcerned with the free speech, and
I'm decidedly in the pony-tailed commie-pinko-liberal delusional guaranteed-
freedom-is-important GPL-lovers crowd. :P

(Of course, I've started a new project and I'm using an X-style license, but
whatever...)

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