Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262366AbTFXV73 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:59:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262430AbTFXV73 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:59:29 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:18696 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262366AbTFXV72 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:59:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF8D0E5.1050805@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:29:57 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: Scott Robert Ladd , David Woodhouse , Stephan von Krawczynski , jgarzik@pobox.com, lawrence@the-penguin.otak.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] References: <20030620001217.G6248@almesberger.net> <20030620120910.3f2cb001.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030620142436.GB14404@work.bitmover.com> <20030620143012.GC14404@work.bitmover.com> <20030620163349.GG17563@work.bitmover.com> <20030621142048.2ae63afa.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030621133831.GA10089@work.bitmover.com> <1056358467.29264.41.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <20030623132231.GC6715@work.bitmover.com> <3EF70EF8.3050107@coyotegulch.com> <20030623150616.GA20103@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1118 Lines: 25 (I'm not just under 400 posts behind, so forgive me if this doesn't fit the current context.) Larry McVoy wrote: > Instead of coming back at me with the premise of "well, I'm eating so my > model is OK" how about coming back with a plan that says "Here's how we > make an open source based business put Microsoft out of business". That's > reality. You are just playing around on the edges, there is nothing > wrong with that, but until you have a viable plan that competes with the > big boys let's stop kidding ourselves, ok? What if Microsoft is a non-issue? What if the guy doesn't care about putting anyone out of business? Why does putting Microsoft out of business have to be one of his goals? (I'm taking 'Microsoft' to be an example, because I do believe that there are reasons why they specifically need competition, but that's another discussion.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/