- turn micro-soft (the os company) into a non-profit research organization or private university for software development and testing of any software or hardware platform someone is willing to fund r&d for.
- this way, governments and other companies could fund the porting of.net frameworks, zum beispiel, to open-source platforms we all know & love - which anyone can then use in their own projects and products.
perhaps there would be sections of code (which we would have to communicate with one another about on/. and other fine forums from time to time) that would need to be hacked out i/o to disable built-in stuff we might not like (links to mindshi(f)t owned webservices, s/a nekkid people websites, for instance).
a-and say we'd have to tack on a gpl-like ms header if we choose to publish and distribute source code (along whatever other headers might be required, such as gpl).
- which said we had to include all the stuff they gave us when we re-distribute their code - with setup scripts for disabling the stuff we don't like for our target audience (hardware and software customers)
- which we might have to pay a royalty to whoever funded the research to develop what we're sharing, could be mindshift, the us government, some other government, some other company, so individual developer, etc if we were found distributing cd's with aol-like auto-launching setup scripts (for instance).
- the royalty price can be advertised in the header and can be free or made free by the primary licensee if that entity so chooses. the royalty price could apply to a group of modules - like a library bundle license)
- you could call it the M$GPL
now THAT, mr gates, is what i would call a betting your company. i sure hope it's close to what your thinking these days.
a-and, this way, imesho, you can get that last 10-15% to dislike the fact that you got so wealthy off the other 85-90% much, much less.
perhaps ms ought to voluntarily split itself up.
and change it's public corpo name and turn micro-soft (the os company) into a non-profit research organization for software development and testing for any software or hardware platform someone is willing to fund development for?
this way, governments and other companies could fund the porting of.net frameworks to open-source platforms we all know and love which we can then all re-use in our own projects.
perhaps there would be sections of code (which we would have to communicate with one another about on/. and other fine forums from time to time)
we would have to hack out to i/o to disable built-in stuff we might not like (links to mindshi(f)t owned webservices, s/a nekkid people websites, for instance).
and say we'd have to tack on a gpl-like ms header if we choose to publish and distribute source code (along whatever other headers might be required, such as gpl).
- which said we had to include all the stuff they gave us when we re-distribute their code - with setup scripts for disabling the stuff we don't like for our target audience (hardware and software customers)
- which we might have to pay a royalty to whoever funded the research to develop what we're sharing, could be mindshift, the us government, some other government, some other company, so individual developer, etc if we were found distributing cd's with aol-like auto-launching setup scripts (for instance).
- the royalty price can be advertised in the header and can be free or made free by the primary licensee. or the royalty price cab apply to a group of modules - like a library bundle license)
- and call it the M$GPL
now, THAT is what i would call a betting a company mr gates. i sure hope that's what your thinking!
a-and, this way, imesho, you can get that last 10-15% of us to dislike the fact that you got so rich off the other 85-90% of us much less.
--oxo
can a borg do good?
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"This might be a good way for Slashdotters to do their civic duty."
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send'em links to the ms antitrust discussions archived here on
with simple instructions for score-filtering.
--oxomoxo
plan:"wait for the spaceship which will take me back to my people"
msft ought to voluntarily split itself up.
.net frameworks, zum beispiel, to open-source platforms we all know & love - which anyone can then use in their own projects and products.
/. and other fine forums from time to time) that would need to be hacked out i/o to disable built-in stuff we might not like (links to mindshi(f)t owned webservices, s/a nekkid people websites, for instance).
and change it's public name.
- turn micro-soft (the os company) into a non-profit research organization or private university for software development and testing of any software or hardware platform someone is willing to fund r&d for.
- this way, governments and other companies could fund the porting of
perhaps there would be sections of code (which we would have to communicate with one another about on
a-and say we'd have to tack on a gpl-like ms header if we choose to publish and distribute source code (along whatever other headers might be required, such as gpl).
- which said we had to include all the stuff they gave us when we re-distribute their code - with setup scripts for disabling the stuff we don't like for our target audience (hardware and software customers)
- which we might have to pay a royalty to whoever funded the research to develop what we're sharing, could be mindshift, the us government, some other government, some other company, so individual developer, etc if we were found distributing cd's with aol-like auto-launching setup scripts (for instance).
- the royalty price can be advertised in the header and can be free or made free by the primary licensee if that entity so chooses. the royalty price could apply to a group of modules - like a library bundle license)
- you could call it the M$GPL
now THAT, mr gates, is what i would call a betting your company. i sure hope it's close to what your thinking these days.
a-and, this way, imesho, you can get that last 10-15% to dislike the fact that you got so wealthy off the other 85-90% much, much less.
--oxo
can a borg do good?
perhaps ms ought to voluntarily split itself up. and change it's public corpo name and turn micro-soft (the os company) into a non-profit research organization for software development and testing for any software or hardware platform someone is willing to fund development for? this way, governments and other companies could fund the porting of .net frameworks to open-source platforms we all know and love which we can then all re-use in our own projects.
perhaps there would be sections of code (which we would have to communicate with one another about on /. and other fine forums from time to time)
we would have to hack out to i/o to disable built-in stuff we might not like (links to mindshi(f)t owned webservices, s/a nekkid people websites, for instance).
and say we'd have to tack on a gpl-like ms header if we choose to publish and distribute source code (along whatever other headers might be required, such as gpl).
- which said we had to include all the stuff they gave us when we re-distribute their code - with setup scripts for disabling the stuff we don't like for our target audience (hardware and software customers)
- which we might have to pay a royalty to whoever funded the research to develop what we're sharing, could be mindshift, the us government, some other government, some other company, so individual developer, etc if we were found distributing cd's with aol-like auto-launching setup scripts (for instance).
- the royalty price can be advertised in the header and can be free or made free by the primary licensee. or the royalty price cab apply to a group of modules - like a library bundle license)
- and call it the M$GPL
now, THAT is what i would call a betting a company mr gates. i sure hope that's what your thinking!
a-and, this way, imesho, you can get that last 10-15% of us to dislike the fact that you got so rich off the other 85-90% of us much less.
--oxo
can a borg do good?