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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: spike1@freenet.co.uk
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 09:06:08 +0000
- Newsgroups: alt.amiga, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
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David Ogg <davidogg@nc.rr.com> did eloquently scribble:
> What would the government do to Linux if Linux had "embraced and
> extended" or anything else Microsoft has done? I wonder. Could they do
> anything, even?
Linux COUDN'T embrace and extend... Embrace and extend involves not only
adopting and corrupting an accepted standard... It means keeping the
additions and changes to that standard secret. (Or refusing to allow it's
use elsewhere). Kerberos is the perfect example.
They took the code from the FreeBSD codebase. As FreeBSD license allows
anyone to do anything with the source code they want as long as there's an
acknowledgement, they extended it and then, when someone found out what the
extensions were and posted source code, M$ forced them to remove it from the
web.
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