Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source document

Benjamin Herrenschmidt (bh40@calva.net)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:38:12 +0100


On Wed, Nov 4, 1998, Dave DeMaagd <demaagd@imagegroup.com> wrote:

>> To grow their featurebase, Linux has also liberally stolen features of
other
>> UNIX's (shell features, file systems, graphics, CPU ports)"

This is simply an expression of the inability of Microsoft people to
think in other terms than propriety and fighting. They probably just
cannot understand the basic concepts behing OSS and they use simple
manicheans symbols like "stealing", "owning", "fighting" just like
paranoid kids....

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