[Am-info] McBride lets a LITTLE of the truth escape.

[Fred A. Miller]

NOW we know for sure what the burr is under his saddle! As most of us 
suspected all along, this whole issue with open source is MONEY! His 
greed - that's the bottom line.

Fred
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"What we're trying to say is, No.1, intellectual property is very 
important in establishing this [Linux] platform and to just take this 
"don't ask, don't tell" methodology [toward IP], we don't think that 
works. If we're going into a new business environment around Linux, 
well, let's ask the question right up front: Does the free business 
model work? Everything we've looked at, whether it's free Internet, 
free telecom, free music, all of these things tend to, for one reason 
or another, not work over an extended period of time. Clearly, the free 
model just about killed our company, and I would argue that it's going 
to kill a lot of other software companies if the GPL [General Public 
License] is able to gain a foothold and run rampant throughout the 
industry."

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,84819,00.html

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