On dealing with Microsoft

On dealing with Microsoft

Posted Jun 24, 2004 7:51 UTC (Thu) by del (subscriber, #380)
Parent article: On dealing with Microsoft

Thank you John Corbet for a helpful review of Eric Raymond's latest
Halloween document.

Indulge me while I add my own perspective concerning Halloween XI: I
tire of Mr. Raymond's persistent, unproductive, and unfair jabs at the
creator of the license and the movement that makes a phenomenon like
the Linux kernel and a GNU operating system possible.

Not giving bean counters credit for the intelligence to compare the
effects of pages and pages of dense legalese that comprise a Microsoft
EULA against the GPL and the corresponding effect to the bottom line
is in my view FUD by Mr. Raymond.

One way to ensure that the Free Software Foundation is relevant is to
invest in it. Please consider an associate membership and help grow
freedom!

David Emile Lamy, proud associate member #1292 of the FSF

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