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To: DiViT who wrote (57812)	5/4/2001 12:13:35 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Microsoft's Attack on Open Source: Linus Torvalds Replies web.siliconvalley.com I wonder if Mundie has ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton? He's not only famous for having basically set the foundations for classical mechanics (and the the original theory of gravitation, which is what most people remember, along with the apple tree story), but he is also famous for how he acknowledged the achievement: "If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants". One of the greatest scientists of our time, having done more for modern technology (and thus, btw, for the modern economy) that Microsoft will ever do, acknowledged the fact that he did so by being able to use the knowledge (what we now call "intellectual property") gathered by others. Mundie throws all that away, because he wants Microsoft to own it all, and make tons of money on it. I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less. Linus Thanks to slashdot.org

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