[Gllug] Gates, self proclaimed father of open-source

SteveC steve at fractalus.com
Sat Nov 10 23:21:28 UTC 2001


* Nix (nix at esperi.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, SteveC gibbered:

I resent the last word there...

> Regrettably wrong :( I don't know if they fought or not, but the
> mass-available PC was, while useful, not a necessary condition for free
> software.

I wasn't meaning it was - but it *was* a condition for normal people to 
actually use FSF type software.

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com fractalus.com/steve

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