The Rules for gaining control:
> > 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 ...
DIVIDE.....
> > 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
CONQUER.....
> > 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.
ISOLATE.....
> > 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
DISOWN.....
> > 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 ..."
WHOSE YOUR DADDY?.....
Ximian is going to come upon many forks in the road and I hope they
don't get lost.
-Robert
> > -------------------------
> >
> > -- Russ
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