[NTLUG:Discuss] Sourcing Linux

[Tom Tumelty]

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12808120
> I don't think I have ever taken up for Bill Gates,
> but the quote used by 
> the journalist is so far out of context, it verges
> on heresy.
> 
> I promise that if "cloning" was an issue, then
> Microsoft has the market 
> cornered. They have connectors for everything from
> Banyan Vines, Novell, 
> Lotus Notes and so on. They ever had a way to use
> early versions of 
> Excel like Lotus 1-2-3. Word had a WordPerfect key
> mapping function.
> 

I agree with you. I am sure it is a non-technical
journalist that wrote this article and he only knows a
few techie buzz words. I also see the article a little
different than you seem to. It appears to me that Bill
is saying that somewhere, somehow, source code that
belongs to MS has been copied into linux. Well, how
far can they take this?  will someone claim to own the
"for" loop or "while" loop? ..i am exaggerating of
course but i do wonder how far this can be taken. 

If memory serves me not that long ago....MS allegedly 
had revolutionary improvements in Windoze which
actually were  ideas used 30 yrs ago in Unix.

I also wonder how much code has been taken from open
source and someone claims to own it, ...the opposite
scenario of what sco is claiming.






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