Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:15:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Nicholas J. Leon" <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent |
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# One scenario I envisioned, was Microsoft hiring Linus, perhaps # you as well, and other core developers, and then hiring other # people to come up with "Microsoft Linux" distribution. As far as # I know, they are free to do just that. Then they'd try putting # RedHat, etc... out of business.
This is what I have always thought they would do, minus the hiring Linus part. In fact, I think I believe (: that they are currently working on their own distribution. They probably feel that if they can get a large enough installed (and supported) user base, they can start to dictate policy on the kernel/lib/util level.
That is what we need to watch out for. They have full rights to make their own dist, but we CANNOT allow them to alter the path of development in any way.
What concerns me is that they will include a copyrighted libmicrosoft.so in their system and all of the apps they develope will require it. Does that violate the license? I don't believe so.
G'day!
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