Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA
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On Sunday 03 November 2002 8:56 am, Klaus Imgrund wrote:
> It seems the problem is not how to do it but how to pay for it.
> Every new version of every program needs to be certified and that will
> cost a lot of $$ - I am sure somebody will see to that. And thats just
> the economical problem.Politically free software couldn't be free
> anymore under these circumstances.
I know - but the point I was making was that there are already too many
political and commercial pressures supporting Linux to NOT let someone put a
strangle hold on the keys for lots of $$. Anyone trying it will
a) Either be trumped by government who will ensure that linux developers get a
key for use
b) Or trumped by someone using legal arguments that it is unconsitutional to
kill free software in this way
c) Or by the market - because the imposition of this type of control makes non
controlled products MUCH more attractive (relative to now).
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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