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Re: [News] Explaining the Roots of Success of the GNU GPL, Free Software

____/ Linonut on Saturday 29 December 2007 14:17 : \____

> * Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:
> 
>> Quote for the day:
>>
>> "If a company fails to demonstrate serious charity that is not directly
>> connected to its core business, one can fairly suspect that ?charitable?
>> donations such as Microsoft?s software gifts are more about marketing and
>> illegal economic dumping than about civicness. Add in monopoly deals like
>> the Indiana and Texas university systems and you have a pattern of
>> aggressive product dumping that merits full investigation by all legal
>> authorities."
>>
>>                                                 --Nathan Newman
> 
> How much of this goes on?  How does it compare to what Apple did (still
> does?)

Since when is Apple an example of benevolent deeds?

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