Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:43:52 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers |
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Hi!
> >>. A Microsoft engineer wrote scripts/Configure. For three years, I have > >> lived in fear that Microsoft would notice this fact and use it to attack > >> Linux through public relations channels or legal means. They haven't > >> yet, > >> so I have been wrong so far. > >> > > > >Teehee. I don't think you have anything to worry about, Microsoft would be > >incredibly embarassed to admit they're contributing to 'problem number 1'. > > > I agree, but we know some strange 'behaviour' of MS. > They have a lot of lawers, they can make us a lot of trouble. > (You will notice that there are no copyright statment on that file, > only the name of authors). > > Remember the RMS (a flame with the word 'ESR' MUST have also the 'RMS' :-)) > way to include 'free' patches: sign and send to FSF a piece of paper, > that the patches CAN be included. > I think nobody in Linux have done that, thus we can expect some > more troubles and microsoft is a large troubles-maker
FSF is actually doing something completely different, they want to be able to change copyrights. Pavel -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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