[ale] Are our Ethernet drivers in danger?

[Benjamin Scherrey]

Darin,

	You insult me and I'm offended by your implications. You know, the most 
potent lies start with a grain of truth. Microsoft's attack on Open Source is 
an example of this. Everything that I stated in my email is a supportable 
fact. It doesn't mean its the way I would like things to be. Lighten up on 
the rhetoric and you might learn something. I did, in fact, use the term 
Microsoft uses to demonstrate how terms of the license will be used to attack 
it. I also described the use of that term as pejorative. Goto 
http://www.m-w.com and look up "pejorative" before you presume too much. I 
think you might find yourself one apology further in debt.

	regards,

		Ben Scherrey

On Tuesday 03 July 2001 11:32 pm, Darin Lang wrote:
> Interesting that you use the word "virus of sorts" Spoken like a true
> Microsoftian. That is their PR term. That is their PR game. You are playing
> along very well. Be sure to save this post for your resume when you switch
> to NT.
>
> Long Live Microsoft!
>
> on 7/3/01 10:02 PM, Benjamin Scherrey at scherrey at innoverse.com wrote:
> > Joe's comments are correct. Releasing code developed using tax dollars,
> > outside of special circumstances such as the examples Joe gives, under
> > any kind of restrictive license is illegal. The GPL is an extremely
> > restrictive license and does act, in a sense, as a virus of sorts even
> > though that is a very pejorative term. That is, in fact, the stated
> > intent of its creator who espouses the elimination of intellectual
> > property rights which goes against the Constitution of the United States
> > of America. The GPL is certainly a valid license, and I fully support the
> > rights of private authors to utilize it, but it is not legal under the
> > conditions of intellectual property developed at taxpayer expense.
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