Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Derek Broughton]

Michael T. Richter wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-15-06 at 09:00 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> 
>> Which is just wrong. The GPL is there to protect your intellectual
>> property.
> 
> Exactly how does the GPL "protect" my intellectual property?  As far as
> I can tell it gives my intellectual property to everybody for free.

Not at all.  It asserts that the IP is yours, and remains yours.  Nobody
else can take it for themselves (as they can under a BSD license).  Sure,
if you GPL it, you can't make much money selling it (though you _do_ have
every right to do so if you can find a buyer).
> 
> Compare the monetary worth of Bill Gates and the monetary worth of
> whoever runs Red Hat.  Who sells the software?  Who sells the support?
> Which of the two is wealthier (by a few orders of magnitude)?

All that means is that Bill's method is very good for making _huge_ amounts
of money.  For many people, that's not all life is about.
-- 
derek