OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3freak at rogers.com
Tue Feb 14 22:16:32 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-14-02 at 11:49 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> No, that should be a different topic: How the GPL sabotages open
> source adoption.  The GPL restrictions have done more to
> maintain the Microsoft monopoly than any Microsoft employee.
> Even when a vendor tries their best to supply drivers it
> doesn't work out very well and they aren't accepted in the
> distributions.

I personally like the GPL. Times change...businesses change...nothing
stands still.

Eventually, everything works itself out.  Though, getting there is often
traumatic.

Regards,

Ranbir

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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
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