china buying software

[Michael Haney]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 21:50, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Most device makers that use Linux have a license from Fraunhaufer for
>> the MP3 codecs.  IMHO since MP3s are so prevalent these days the codec
>> should be open-sourced or at least made royalty free.
>>
>
> IMHO since Windows is so prevalent these days the OS should be
> open-sourced or at least made royalty free.
>

I see what you did there.  ;-)

But, if Windows went open source then everyone would see all of the
stolen technologies what go into it.

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