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From: | Paul Bramscher |
Subject: | Re: Bill Gates doesn't want Americans working for him |
Date: | Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:38:12 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) |
John Bailo wrote:
Paul Bramscher wrote:syndicates as well as between individuals). If one syndicate does not share their products, they will not receive resources from other syndicates, making it in their best interest to share."Sounds like the relationship between M$ and it's OEMs.
Except for the profit motive part. That's lacking in both the open source (OSI) and free software (GNU) movements. Also, nobody in the open source movement can corner or monopolize something.
If you take the firefox source code and do something awesome with it, start a new project or major functionality, that's totally acceptable. Even encouraged. If you get the sourcecode of XP, you're probably going to jail.
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