He is sorta right.

Post #17,480 by JayMehaffey 11/9/01 11:21:25 AM Reply	He is sorta right. He is sorta right, open source would not be the force it is without the huge cloud of evil floating over Redmond. Jay
Post #17,483 by Another Scott 11/9/01 11:28:46 AM Reply	Ha! :-)
Post #17,531 by tuberculosis 11/9/01 2:37:28 PM Reply	Bollocks Software was distributed in source format long before compiled binaries were the norm. There's a reason every Unix shipped with a C compiler you know. This practice predates PCs by some years. Open Source (tm) merely tries to codify enforce the tradition of sharing and cooperation via legal means. Perhaps more apocryphal - Open Source (tm) seeks to prevent what Bill did for his first BASIC interpreter - which was take a public domain implementation, clean it up a bit, and sell it as his own work. IOW, Open Source has had Bill's personal number for some time.
Post #17,553 by JayMehaffey 11/9/01 4:03:34 PM Reply	Re: Bollocks Notice I didn't say that MS caused open source, rather it turned what was a small group of people into an major movement. A large percentage of the people using Linux at home today did not go with Linux because it's Unix or because it works better. They went to Linux because it's not MS, they went with Open Source because it is the opposite of the practices of MS. The Open Source movement may have succeeded without MS, but MS certainly had a hand in driving people to it. Jay
Post #17,613 by tuberculosis 11/9/01 7:04:42 PM Reply	Like everything else - they only popularized it. Microsoft never invented anything in their lives.

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