From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 10:22:47 MDT
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.
> enough to know which is the better approach in this case, but the
> market knows.
The invisible hand is flipping you the bird.
-- Eugen* Leitl
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