OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 14 22:43:14 UTC 2006


Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> 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.

GPL is flawed in *concept*, not in implementation.

Mike
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