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Re: Monsoon settles: complies with GPL, pays undisclosed sum
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Richard Tobin |
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Re: Monsoon settles: complies with GPL, pays undisclosed sum |
Date: |
31 Oct 2007 17:34:41 GMT |
In article <9pCdnYWle9KXM7XanZ2dnUVZ_q6mnZ2d@insightbb.com>,
rjack <danw6144@insightbb.com> wrote:
>The GPL and Linux keeps Micro$oft out of hot water with the Antitrust
>Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Empowering Micro$oft to
>maintain its hegemony in the U.S. software market without D.O.J.
>interference is certainly triumphant evidence that the GPL works.
>
>"The number of proprietary operating systems is growing, not shrinking,
>so competition in this market continues quite apart from the fact that
>the GPL ensures the future availability of Linux and other Unix
>offshoots." Wallace v. IBM et al. (No. 06-2454)(7th Cir. 2006)
So what's your theory? That we shouldn't have alternative operating
systems, so that we can better claim that Microsoft is a monopoly?
In other news: "rjack" cuts his nose of to spite his face.
-- Richard
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- Re: Monsoon settles: complies with GPL, pays undisclosed sum, Richard Tobin, 2007/10/31
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- Re: Monsoon settles: complies with GPL, pays undisclosed sum, Geza Giedke, 2007/10/31
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