Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:19:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | RE: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux |
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Al wrote:
>>it is in the kernel. Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) can't >>take your code and use it without consent. The GPL is one way of giving >>consent, with certain strings attached. > >But they can take the ideas and methods demonstrated by the code in the >patch. Its not that they are going to take what he wrote and run patch >against their code. They can take a good idea, sit a skilled programmer in a >room and adapt the concepts without a bit of a problem.
Really though, even if they do do that, who cares? It will still blue screen anyway. Then restart/reboot/reinstall... They assimilate other's ideas, then reimplement them poorly and in a limited kludgy way, then lock the bugs in for 5 years due to compatibility issues. We don't have much to worry about here.
TTYL
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