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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.


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