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Article #3572Re: Hostile Takeover of Linux!!!
From: Ben
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:00
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What? dan <spent1@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:373B1B3C.6E044195@yahoo.com... > > > Too bad guy's it was all for nothing. > Sylvan has tagged us all as idiots if we > don't get their Linux certification. > > I feared it would be the demise of the Os > and now it is so. I guess we leared to > hold the rights to certification the next > time we build an Os. Nce work to all who > participated. But now with all the cheeters > entering the Linux field it will be sure > to be just another Microsoft and novell > "reboot it!" server with a bad track record. > > Next time the next Linus will have to protect the > > Os's trademark against these > Os killers certification processes. > > I am sorry to say I have decided to start > work on another OS (open source of course) > with protection from the Sylvan Empire > (dark side). > > Since Sylvan now has the say as to who can > be employed using linux and only if you use > Linux they way they say you should. Or in > short they now own it! > > I have decided to start planning another os > but hold the rights as to whether or not anyone > can > "CERTIFY" people in the OS. > Making it fair for all to compete illiminating > the > Political B.S. of Sylvan > Which Linux has now fallen victim too. > > Best of luck to Linux anyway. It was hard > work and truly is a great os but I can't > say I did'nt see it comming either. It almost > made > a great Os. > > If any one has any ideas on how this protection > can > be implemented on an > already open source product. Maybe we should try > to > save it. Have a talk with Linus or something. >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11033e,3a9a9c2f9beab268 X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public From: "Ben" <JPF0405@spam.n.die.megsinet.net> Subject: Re: Hostile Takeover of Linux!!! Date: 1999/05/15 Message-ID: <FK7%2.402$Uz6.526@news.megsinet.net> X-Deja-AN: 478078151 References: <373B1B3C.6E044195@yahoo.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Trace: news.megsinet.net 926746661 209.81.239.190 (Sat, 15 May 1999 00:37:41 CDT) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "Ben" <BenF13@excite.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:37:41 CDT Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux