From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 17:30:45 MDT
Eugene Leitl wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, John Clark wrote:
>
> > The open source software movement is trying to put Microsoft out of
> > business. They might be successful, or they might not. I'm not smart
>
> Innocent, Your Honour. The open source folks are just trying to make free
> software. It may reduce the "market" share of closed source shops, Redmond
> included, but it is not the original intention. Which is, to make free
> open source software, hopefully of sufficient quality. Which is
> successful, so far.
This is untrue. Robert Stallman is on record specifically admitting that his
goal in creating the GNU license was to destroy and bankrupt any software
developer that ever made a buck on software.
> > enough to know which is the better approach in this case, but the
> > market knows.
>
> The invisible hand is flipping you the bird.
The invisible hand is too busy masturbating to do that, and similarly is not
thus able to give those who break market rules a good slap up side the head.
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