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BusinessBusinessPosted Mar 28, 2006 21:14 UTC (Tue) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)In reply to: Drugs by AnswerGuy Parent article: Conference Report: FOSS Means Business, Belfast (Linux Journal)
Neither the draft nor drugs have anything to do with the economy, and business itself, in the form of alcohol and tobacco companies, was (and is) dead set against legalizing any kind of competition. If you tell even 1% of the businesses in the US to stop using their existing software, they will raise such a stink that St. Peter will have to hand out gas masks at the Pearly Gates. I bet 50% of businesses would be adversely affected by being told to stop using Linux, some more than others, and no one will ignore that.
The Wright brothers patented wing warping, which actually bent the thin wings then in use. Curtiss got around that by introducing ailerons, hinged sections of wing, that have been widespread ever since and are in fact necessary for any substantial wing. The patent battles went on for so long that eventually the US govt stepped in and either bought up the patents or knocked their heads together. The ostensible excuse was the the European war which we know of as WW I, which the US didn't enter until a year later.
I doubt the aviation market was even a hundredth as extensive back then as the Linux market is now.
You underestimate how widespread Linux is. The users who will stink out Congress are businesses, not people.
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