[!CrackMonkey!] [Bram@moolenaar.net: Microsoft funds Open
Source initiative]
David Mercer
Radix42 at Cox.Net
Wed Nov 20 22:14:02 PST 2002
>On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:49:03PM -0500, dep wrote:
>
>> since when were ugandan orphans an open source initiative in any but
>> the broadest definition of open source?
>
>Um...since about as long as vim has been around. Not a vim user, huh?
I'd say that's a 'software author' issue, not an 'open source' issue...one
could just as easily, with a proprietary closed source program, say
'10% of revenue goes to midgets crippled in a monkey knife fight'.
Ugandan orphans have NOTHING to do with open source per say, and much
more to do with shitty govt. and bad economic policy.
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David Mercer
Tucson, AZ
Radix42 at Cox.Net
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