Nothing new under the sun.
The bottom line is: never use .NET and use GPL!
Ciao
Federico
On Tue, 17 July 2001, herrold wrote:
>
> On 17 Jul 2001 federico@federicopaini.com wrote:
>
> > Whatever M$ has in mind, I know one thing, in the long run is
> > not gonna be good for the open source and is gonna be very good
> > for M$.
>
> > M$ is trying to do what they always did, cut the life support
> > out of the competitors. They did it with Netscape, they did it
> > with Apple (to a certain extent).
>
> ... heck -- the short version of the history (five years hence) is:
>
> 1. MS professes community spirit and 'freely offers' support, specs
> and access under a BSD style license -- OS community is distracted
> into chasing the tail lights, and fragments ...
>
> 2. MS gets past DOJ matters, and during the first two versions of
> .NET [on the standard 18 mo MS release cycle], beta tests and gets
> market share
>
> 3. Three years in, MS finally 'gets it right' in .NET v. 3.0, which
> just happens to break binary compatability in the name of 'adding
> features needed by our customers' -- BSD license allows an
> enhancement fork to be developed without releasing for use by
> others.
>
> 4. MS then declines access to the 'enhanced' specs, and the
> Open Source community variant is a orphan puppy, beloved only to a
> few OS geeks. See the Blackdown Java port's recent commits -- i.e.,
> 'none' after IBM dropped the hammer.
> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/info.html
>
> 5. The BSD license and the good intentions of the OS community are
> 'giggle fodder' at Gates' next cocktail party. "We used their own
> tools against them ..."
>
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>
> -- Russ
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