Nope, no paranoia. You're probably right on the money. This way they can go
to court (which did confirm that they are a monopoly, BTW, in no uncertain
terms) and tell the court, <whiney voice>"the remedy for our bad behaviour
should be relatively light, we've got competetition and we're even helping
them..." </whiney voice>
The free labor thing I'm not sure about. They won't be able to use GPL code
in the same way as with *BSD. I think that the hooks will be there, but the
rod, reel, and fishing line will be noticiably different from what M$ offers.
And better, I hope.
Russell
> Uhhmm.. maybe it's the paranoid in me talking, but did you ever think
> that they did this for the same reason that they bought 25% of Apple?
> They keep a competitor alive just enough to get the government off their
> backs. They help out Mono to create "competition," a fight to which they
> make up all the rules and hold most of the cards. I doubt that they do
> this for anythign else than 2 reasons:
> 1) They need to stop being visibly monopolistic
> 2) they want to get more "free labor" a-la *BSD.
>
> *getting out of paranoid mode*
>
> Norb
>
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