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Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- To: shebs at apple dot com, torvalds at transmeta dot com
- Subject: Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 19:28:53 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, pthomas at suse dot de
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:50:23 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
> I really hope that Linux does not get hosed by its casual approach
> to ownership. It wouldn't take very much Microsoft-owned code in
> Linux to provide them with an excuse to make you spend the rest of
> your natural life in court, and if they win their antitrust case on
> appeal, as seems quite possible, they will be free to deal with that
> pesky Linus as they would like. At that point the FSF will be
> looking pretty clever for having insisted upon copyright
> assignments...
(More to Linus than Stan:)
Ask Kirk sometime about how he feels about lawyers, the legal process,
the advisability of collecting a legal paper trail and so on, how how
many hours he's personally spent on the process, and if we wants to
spend any more.
:-(
Those who have not learned from the mistakes of others are doomed to
learn from their own.