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Letter from 2020
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| Mon Sep 18, 2000 | 12:12A| PermaLink |
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"The saddest subversive I met claimed to be a programmer. He said that he was writing a program using Basic.NET. He must have been insane. Even if his program worked he wouldn't be allowed to run it. How could one person possibly check every possible patent infringement in a program they wrote? And even if he hadn't infringed he couldn't sell it without buying a compatibility license from Microsoft.NET and who could possibly afford that? He had said something about gippling the software, which apparently means giving it away, but mad as he was, even he knew that under WUCITA that would be illegal"
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FULL STORY @
OSOPINION
(http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MarkSummerfield/MarkSummerfield3.html)
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