What a tremendous waste of time for this merry band of MS paid-off congress.
Let us suppose for just one minute that their merry little band of nit-wits manages to make the GPL license illegal.
Does this mean that Linux development is dead @WW?
Does it mean that foreign governments who have adopted Linux will immediately purge their systems in favor of Windows?
The real question is, "Does the U.S. Congress have any control over Linux as Linux is a globally dominate OS?" The answer is 'NO'.
The exact same argument can be put to SCO!
It is ludicras and idiotic to even dream there is commerical UNIX copyrighted code in the Linux kernel!
Another good question to ask is, "Have we ever seen MS lobby the U.S. Congress over any other software related issue in the last 20 years such as they are doing now?" The answer is 'NO'.
Microsoft has not made it a habbit of attempting to tear down other OS's in the U.S. Congress before.
Could the United States Government stop Linux development? Absolutely not.
Reading about this group and the SCO thing is like listening to animals being killed in a science lab to test the effects of some exotic hairspray.
MS's time on this planet is numbered in days. Their reign will be over. And I'm as sick of reading and hearing their screams as I was sick of reading about Monica Lewinski and Bill Clinton.
They might as well attempt to get legislation passed to ban water and air!
It's just that childish and stupid.
I'm an older coder who's worked in Life and Health environments using Cobol. I'm also a C/C++ coder writing interfaces to replace older mainframes with PC based servers for these industries.
Here's the scoop your looking for.
The United States Government is offering corporations a tax incentive for hiring overseas labor from India.
That means that young people getting degrees in IT will have to compete against Indian labor for less than 1/2 what an American programmer would make.
Anyway you cut it, our current Republican Administration is out to cut our throats anyway they can.
And I pray the American public will eventually come to their senses and vote that party out forever.
The way I look at it, either you are an American or your not. If your not going to be an American then you should be here and you should be pushing your product here.
It's just that simple.
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What a tremendous waste of time for this merry band of MS paid-off congress. Let us suppose for just one minute that their merry little band of nit-wits manages to make the GPL license illegal. Does this mean that Linux development is dead @WW? Does it mean that foreign governments who have adopted Linux will immediately purge their systems in favor of Windows? The real question is, "Does the U.S. Congress have any control over Linux as Linux is a globally dominate OS?" The answer is 'NO'. The exact same argument can be put to SCO! It is ludicras and idiotic to even dream there is commerical UNIX copyrighted code in the Linux kernel! Another good question to ask is, "Have we ever seen MS lobby the U.S. Congress over any other software related issue in the last 20 years such as they are doing now?" The answer is 'NO'. Microsoft has not made it a habbit of attempting to tear down other OS's in the U.S. Congress before. Could the United States Government stop Linux development? Absolutely not. Reading about this group and the SCO thing is like listening to animals being killed in a science lab to test the effects of some exotic hairspray. MS's time on this planet is numbered in days. Their reign will be over. And I'm as sick of reading and hearing their screams as I was sick of reading about Monica Lewinski and Bill Clinton. They might as well attempt to get legislation passed to ban water and air! It's just that childish and stupid.
If you own a PC and attempt to access the internet to do anything, your a criminal. PERIOD.
I'm an older coder who's worked in Life and Health environments using Cobol. I'm also a C/C++ coder writing interfaces to replace older mainframes with PC based servers for these industries. Here's the scoop your looking for. The United States Government is offering corporations a tax incentive for hiring overseas labor from India. That means that young people getting degrees in IT will have to compete against Indian labor for less than 1/2 what an American programmer would make. Anyway you cut it, our current Republican Administration is out to cut our throats anyway they can. And I pray the American public will eventually come to their senses and vote that party out forever. The way I look at it, either you are an American or your not. If your not going to be an American then you should be here and you should be pushing your product here. It's just that simple.