[NTLUG:Discuss] Sourcing Linux

[Tom Tumelty]

--- kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> Tom Adelstein wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > tumelty4 at yahoo.com wrote:
> > 
> >> This article is very interesting. Especially the
> last
> >> 2 sentences in the  2nd paragraph:
> >>
> >>
>
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.
> > 
> 
> Interesting point.  For me, the one that caught my
> attention and was easily 
> the stupidiest paragraph:
> 
> ---
> New tools could help prevent code from being
> illegally copied. For example, 
> digital-rights-management technology might be
> applied to software-development 
> processes, says Microsoft senior VP Eric Rudder.
> "There are probably some very 
> interesting things for us to think about in how
> developers protect models, 
> chunks of code, or specs," he says.
> ---
> 
> DRM doesn't have a hope or prayer in being effective
> against the problem being 
> discussed (code copying).  Can you say "retype"? 
> Yeh I thought you could. :-)
> 
> This is merely PR to bring DRM into the discussion
> in the hopes of moving it 
> forward.
> 
> Oh I wish for the ability to whack the announcers of
> stupid or impossible 
> statements!
> 
> Kevin

I just remembered something I was told a couple of
yrs. A friend told me that MS wants to eventually
verify every piece of code written with its software
(c/c++/j++/VB/etc...). Supposedly this would mean
submitting ever piece of code one writes to M$ so they
could verify it is unique...oops but what happens if
someone submits something they like and dont
have....and nobody checks on them....reminds me about
the story of the fox gaurding the chicken house and
the fox was not checked on by anyone.

I do not know if this is actually thier plan but I do
wonder if what we are seeing with SCO and this
supposed comment by bill are the first steps in that
direction.



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