🚀 go-pugleaf

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.


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