From:	"Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Msnews@pineight.8m.com>
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"Jens Luedicke" <jens AT irs-net DOT com> wrote:
>
> > For me the "real" GPL looks more strict than the license of a
> > commercial compiler: It requires you to release the source with your
> > programs.
> This is real freedom. Even if Microsoft would release their programs
> with source, this wouldn't be the end for Microsoft. I think that the
> majority of the Microsoft-Users have no idea about programming and
> how to work with the sources.

But there's always that very significant minority who would
be interested in source code, if only to fix all the fscking
instability in Wind0ze. Then there's the Wine crew, who
is working on a free Windows clone for X-based systems,
as opposed to the Cygwin team, who is porting XFree86
to Windows + DirectX.


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