Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 49639 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2001 17:26:57 -0000 Received: from osc.edu (192.148.249.4) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 16 Feb 2001 17:26:57 -0000 Received: from krakow.osc.edu (krakow.osc.edu [192.148.249.195]) by osc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/OSC 2.0) with ESMTP id MAA18431; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:26:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:26:55 -0500 (EST) From: Jan Labanowski To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org cc: Jan Labanowski Subject: What is open software... Sorry, could not resist... In-Reply-To: <361024C34A6DD2118689006097AE2B4D0102C46F@css4.cs> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, GOMEZ Henri wrote: > Sorry that you didn't understand what is OpenSource... Here it is... Malice {:-)}. This is a official quote by Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin. "Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business." "I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat." http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc Jan K. Labanowski | phone: 614-292-9279, FAX: 614-292-7168 Ohio Supercomputer Center | Internet: jkl@osc.edu 1224 Kinnear Rd, | http://www.ccl.net/chemistry.html Columbus, OH 43212-1163 | http://www.osc.edu/