Re: Tax writeoff for Open Source Developers?

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 06:21 AM 12/21/98 -0600, Steve Cohen wrote:
 
>Unless you give us some idea of the project ideas your friend has been
>forced to abandon and a rough idea of which were forced to be abandoned due
>to practices of Microsoft vs. due to practices of the "loosely connected
>group of individuals", it is impossible to evaluate your claims.

His first love is compilers (as is mine). Microsoft effectively destroyed
Borland's opportunities in the Windows market, while GCC killed off the rest.
There's nothing left.

Other projects he's hesitant to undertake (and probably won't) include 
various sorts of Internet software, a personal information manager, and
grapics software.

Microsoft and the GPL are acting as "pincers," he feels, cooperating to
cut off his livelihood. He sees them as attacking from both sides to
accomplish the same end: preventing him from starting a small but
successful software company.

And he's absolutely right.

--Brett