Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

Bill Davidsen
2002-02-19T21:11:34Z

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On February 19, 2002 09:04 am, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:

> Under the GPL Having exclusive copyright just means that you can relicense
> later stuff if you want. I'm not clear on why FSF considers it so important
> but for Linux it just means that nobody, not even Linus, can ever release
> under a new license (e.g., the BSD license). So actually, having multiple
> copyright holders is a good thing for you, it protects your investment in GPL
> capital better. I say, if Microsoft employees want to contribute to Linux,
> the more the merrier. Heck, even billg is going to wake up on day (with a
> start, in the middle of the night) and realize which way the wind is blowing.
> Steve Jobs did.

So did IBM, SCO, HP and Sun. We shall see what transpires...

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