Bob Robertson is getting more repetitive, less coherent, and less funny, but he did manage to deliver a laugh by forgetting that apache and sendmail are not copyleft... He doesn't even remember what he was arguing about!
I remember perfectly. Your adherence to the Microsoft astroturf playbook, how Microsoft loves the BSD license but hates the GPL because they can't legally cherry-pick GPL code like they can the BSD.
Oh, and you didn't mention that FireFox isn't GPL either. Really, you should read more closely.
Once again, I am not against open-source software[/b
As usual, you get to hide behind your qualifiers that it's not "open-source" you're against, just code released under the GPL.
The problem, A.L., you're not reading your posts. Other people are. Maybe, just maybe, the fact that you are constantly being misuderstood (according to you) by everyone else is because they
are reading your posts.
only refusal by some of its fanatical proponents to admit that their emperor is butt-naked, so to speak, and their irrational attacks on Microsoft.
There's a perfect example: You accuse others of "their emperor is butt-naked", but then call the responses to your fawning adoration "irrational attacks on Microsoft".
You, sir, are the one with no clothes.
Once again, this is a thread about software quality.
Not by the postings you make.
Government evils like "intellectual property" (including its use against "EULA violators") are addressed elsewhere. And I entirely expect my infatuation with Microsoft to only be a phase, until the Linux / Java world stops pissing me off so much.
Woops, did I misquote you there? EULA, that's what Microsoft calls their limited use license on their products.
I guess the frustration with them has been built up over several years, while Microsoft's quality continued to improve.
I've got a non-booting blue-screen-of-death XP laptop on the bench downstairs that says your out of your mind. Such quality, such wonder. Such blind infatuation with marketing.