[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard for this link. ]
“I’m going to surprise some of you out there and say that I
don’t think that proprietary software is all that bad in certain
areas. But for commodity items like Web browsers, operating
systems, and the like, especially when the disease goes wildly
unchecked, it’s a disaster.”
“I’d like to dig a bit deeper and hit a submerged artery in the
software-naming cadaver. I’d like to examine the undercurrents of
the disease proprietary with respect to the real disease, and the
real transfer mechanism. That mechanism is immorality.”
“When Microsoft breaks a well-known protocol with their own
version that’s just not quite there, or when they don’t publish all
of an API (application programming interface), is what they are
doing illegal? I don’t see any laws on the books to stop it. It’s
tricky business, without a doubt. It’s “dirty-pool” by some
peoples’ judgment. But illegal? No. “
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