Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy

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# William said on May 3, 2004 8:46 AM:

Here's the text of the post.... "http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7554

The question for the Free Software community to ruminate is this: Is
supporting Mono supporting our own desktop downfall? A statement
attributed to Steve Ballmer at a party a few years ago would support
this possibility. To paraphrase, when asked about Mono, he shrugged it
off with a statement alluding to the fact if Mono got too popular,
that's what lawyers are for. Mind you this is friend-of-a-friend kind of
hearsay, but it is worth noting regardless.

Because Mono works off the ECMA spec for C# and the CLI, and because
Novell has the legal resources to make the idle-lawyer threat less
effective, I don't think this is some long-plotted submarine trick
designed to disrupt free software adoption. In the long run a healthy
Mono that can run .Net apps natively is as important to Linux as a good
JVM is--that is to say, very important."

Nonsense by any other name is still nonsense

# William said on May 4, 2004 10:27 AM:

>> Well, if litigation instead of innovating is wrong, then it's wrong.

Agreed. 100%.

# William said on May 5, 2004 8:47 AM:

<Agreed. 100%>
Thanks Mike. Too bad more people don't hop on the bandwagon, it's really a pretty obvious thing to point out. The old phrase "Any government powerful enough to give you everything you want is also powerful enough to take everything you have" ought to be considered. Today's David's are often Tomorrow's Goliath's so you could be next (you referring to those who don't condemn litigating your way to success as a business practice).

It's kinda funny/disgusting how situationally some people role with this issue. You doing it to me is bad. Me doing it to you is ok. That's some seriously old school thinking.