Linked by Sean Cohen on Tue 13th Apr 2004 06:52 UTC
GNU, GPL, Open Source Today I'm going to talk about why software - any software, all software - actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do).
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i wish
by hobgoblin on Tue 13th Apr 2004 09:32 UTC

that when they looked into microsoft for antitrust lawsuits that they would consider forceing them to put forth current and future data on filetypes, network protocols, file systems and so on. basicly then the idea of vendor lock-in becomes a nonissue and we would see ms dies a very horrible death or actualy start makeing quality poducts to stay afloat...