[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“In those last two weeks, after judge Jackson issued his
sentence, we have seen a lot of proposal about the “Microsoft
Problem” to solve what de facto is a monopoly on software. On the
other hand, Microsoft is crying that they should be in condition to
innovate”.
“For a lot of people involved with free Software and Linux
this is becoming a war of sorts, and that is wrong. I can agree
that, after the Halloween documents were made public and so on, the
feeling that Microsoft is making itself a war against FSF is really
strong, but it should not be a problem for us. Let MS
boil.“
“The point is that proposals like to force MS to realize their
sources of WIN systems and so on are not a solution. There is
nothing wrong with a software house that sell his OS and keep
sources secret, think to aix or hp-ux, isn’t it the same? The real
problem is when this software house is the only one that has a
system on which you can make your hardware run, because drivers are
developed only for this OS.”