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Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:36:16 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Rjack <user@example.net> writes:

> The GPL is the best friend Microsoft ever had!

The GPL is friend to whoever wants to take it up.  On the other hand,
Rjack may well be the stupidest friend Microsoft ever had.  And nobody
wants to take up him.

> THE GPL IS THE BEST FRIEND MICROSOFT EVER HAD. Open source advocates
> are ideologically blinded to these facts.

The GPL was not written by Open Source advocates but by Free Software
advocates.  Free Software advocates are not bothered about Microsoft
except when its business practices complicate acquiring platforms fit
for running Free Software.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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