[Am-info] FUD. My turn. My FUD.

[Matthew Elvey]

Hmm.  The owner of a company* that developed a version of Emacs once told me
that GNU Emacs had tons of
(unauthorized) source code from his company's product in it.  I don't know
what the merits were (he appeared to be an upstanding guy!) but the point I
want to make is that he decided that there was nothing his company could do
about it.

*which I don't think it would be appropriate to name in a public forum like
this


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:am-info-admin@lists.essential.org]On Behalf Of Eric M. Hopper
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 11:57 AM
> To: am-info@lists.essential.org
> Subject: Re: [Am-info] FUD. My turn. My FUD.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:32:30AM -0800, Nerd wrote:
>
> > I'd fork over a few hundred for the source to W2k (or better yet, the
> > source repository - including all the old versions).  Heck, I'd pay 10
> > grand for it and put it up, like DeCSS, if I could get away with it;
> > I'm sure I could get the money back in donations within a week,
> > without breaking a sweat.  Heck, Larry E or Scott M would probably
> > write me a check for it.  Make that 50 grand.
>
> 	I would be very unhappy with you if you did.
>
> 	Not because I feel the the laws that Microsoft would invoke to
> cover this case need to be strong.  Not because I like Microsoft.
>
> 	No, I would be unhappy with you because it would make every
> single Open Source project on the planet the possible subject of a
> lawsuit for using Microsoft trade secrets or proprietary source code.
>
> 	Microsoft tries to erect that very same wall inside their
> company to prevent GPL code from getting into their products.
>
> Have fun (if at all possible),
> --
> The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they
> be properly armed.  -- Alexander Hamilton
> -- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.mn.org
> http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --
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