Hmm, the more I think about this, the more it strikes me as a great way to hit back at the likes of SCO and their brothers-in-arms M$.
Maybe there should be an aggresive push by the open-source community to patch as many things as is possible for the Windows platform - 5 years down the line you can then begin to hit M$ with lawsuits claiming that they copied lines of code from your patch and claimed it as their own.
It would only take a couple of hundred small patches and you could probably keep M$ in courts around the world forever - damaging their system sales and ruining their reputation. Seems to me that's the only way those scum-boys will take the hint and leave Unix and it's development alone.
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Hmm, the more I think about this, the more it strikes me as a great way to hit back at the likes of SCO and their brothers-in-arms M$. Maybe there should be an aggresive push by the open-source community to patch as many things as is possible for the Windows platform - 5 years down the line you can then begin to hit M$ with lawsuits claiming that they copied lines of code from your patch and claimed it as their own. It would only take a couple of hundred small patches and you could probably keep M$ in courts around the world forever - damaging their system sales and ruining their reputation. Seems to me that's the only way those scum-boys will take the hint and leave Unix and it's development alone.