🚀 go-pugleaf

On 11 Oct 1998 09:54:15 PDT, M O'Neill <darrow@oneillaw.com> wrote:
>On 05 Oct 1998 12:44:16 +0200, David Kastrup
><dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>
>>les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>>
>>> In article <m21zorpcct.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
>>> David Kastrup  <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> >> It forbids you from forbidding anyone who has a copy from giving it away.
>>> >> >> If you can't control distribution it will be difficult to make people
>>> >> >> pay even if it isn't technically impossible.
>>> >> >
>>> >> >Yes.  This is why Cygnus and RedHat are starving.
>>> >> 
>>> >> Compared to IBM and MicroSoft, yes.
>>> >
>>> >"Compared to?"  Strange definition.  Compared to Helmut Kohl, I am
>>> >starving then, too.  Still feeling very much alive and kicking.
>>> 
>>> If you are going to propose a business model you should look at the
>>> extremes of where that model can take you.  Would you rather own
>>> RedHat or MicroSoft?
>>
>>RedHat.  There are only so many meals I can eat per day, so many beds
>>I can sleep in and so on.  Being a universally hated weirdo renowned
>>for spearheading bad software does not cut it for me.  I do not want
>>to have pies thrown into my face when going around.
>>
>>
>
>personally, I'd be embarrassed to be the richest man in the world and
>unable to produce a decent o/s.  but then, as far as embarrasing
>situations go, it's not so bad.

	Forget the OS bit... he can't even spend that money in 
	style... He's a scrooge all the way...


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