[Sussex] Ok the gauntlets on the floor!

[Angelo Servini]

Well, talking about poo.  How about, don't buy shampoo.  I say, stand up for
your rights and get the real thing, get a cat.

<grin>


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Geoff Teale [mailto:gteale at cmedltd.com]
>Sent: Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:54
>To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
>Subject: Re: [Sussex] Ok the gauntlets on the floor!
>
>
>John D. wrote:
>
>>So, this is, presumably, why "friend Balmer" refered to linux as
>>software cancer/software communism not all that long ago.
>>  
>>
>That I would suggest was him trying to put a nasty spin on the 
>fact that 
>if you use GPL source in your program then your program must also be 
>licensed under the GPL.  Microsoft much prefer the BSD license, which 
>means you can take someones code (which they give to you under 
>the very 
>open BSD license) , include it in your project and then charge 
>people a 
>lot of money for it whilst not passing on the same rights you so 
>graciously recieved.
>
>Imagine this scenario:  farmer A lets farmer B have some 
>cattle feed for 
>free, but farmer B charges farmer A for cow dung.
>
>>I wondered, because when I first saw reports of it, I automatically
>>"pooh poohed" it as more MS based FUD, and couldn't be 
>bothered to read
>>any further.
>>  
>>
>This e-mail already has way too much poo in it.
>-- 
>
>Regards
>Geoff Teale
>Proud resident of West Bedstead,
>gateway to the Peoples Republic of Ashurst Wood Nation State 
>(P.R.A.W.N.S.)
>
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