From: Al Billings (memoria@memoria.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 10:05:56 MDT
Rik wrote:
> > CYMM SAYS: If MS were a real monopoly; it would be poor
> > marketing. Now, with Open Source, this strategy seems to be
> > plain stupid. "Intellectual property" as a concept has gone
> > wayyy too far. The pendulum is about to swing the other way...
> > it's a built in negative feedback loop.
>
> Except that they're using patent law (and trade secret law
> extended to infinite patent law?) to try and remove open
> source software from the marketplace.
Who is? In what case?
Al
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