- From: Matthew Gardiner <matgar@clear.net.nz>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:35:00 +1200
- To: <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
Well Alex Simons, it may be all very well and good for large corporations such as Microsoft who on a regular basis pervert the freemarket, and restrict consumer sovereignty, however, I live in the real world, and patents are nothing but another leaver in the monopoly creating process. I also hear Microsoft Think Tank Inc. abuse/accuse the GPL of IP destroying, yet, I find that your company is quiet willing to steal code from *BSD, and never once thank the orignal authors. At least SUN, for example, has the guts to put in their documentation that they acknowledge the contribution of the *BSD programmers. I also see that you support *BSD, yet I find that Office is only available for Windows and Mac. If you liked the *BSD license and OS so much, why not release the code, and let other people "embrace and extend it?". Patents for intellectual property is for original idea, not "embraced-extended" ideas such as SMB, which you on regular basis change to cause problems for the SAMBA team, or the embrace and extension of the kerbos protocol. Yet, none of these times do you ever see Microsoft ever try to create a cross platform solution, thus, another rung in the monopoly creating ladder has been climbed. Matthew Gardiner. -- Windows goes down quicker than a $2 whore in the Whitehouse.
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