He's baaaack!

ziggy on 2002-03-01T15:01:37

"The problem with general public license advocates is that they don't understand that people need the opportunity to commercialize software," Mundie said, attacking the notion of open-source software.

The problem with proprietary software is that companies don't understand that people need the opportunity to fix something when it breaks:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use lib '.';
use BrokenModule;

...

Funny how ./BrokenModule.pm can contain a local fix being evaluated for testing or used for workarounds.

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Even Better

chaoticset on 2002-03-01T16:00:20

"Rather than form a federation with Microsoft and work with what we had already created, there was this notion that the world should be offered an alternative," Mundie said.

If I wasn't laughing so hard at this, it would depress me. :)

"It's as if people should have a choice or something. There will be no alternative! SIEG HEIL! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!"