Re: Corel Linux

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> Al == Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

Al> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>> Are we grownups here? Or would we rather sound like a bunch of
>> 16-year-old punks trying out for gang membership?

Al> Good grief, it was meant humourously, not maliciously. I
Al> couldn't give a damn whether Corel break the gpl or not; I'm
Al> sure loads of people do it every day, I just thought the story
Al> was good for a laugh.

You have my deepest apologies. I clearly mistook you for one of those
16-year-punks who inhabit slashdot. (One correspondent in another
forum regularly makes such comments maliciously, and has done so
recently. I'm oversensitive this week, not seeing humor in much of
anything :( .)

>> contract). But if we want OSS to go mainstream, we should talk
>> in language you might find in the Economist rather than in the
>> headlines of the Sun.

Al> OSS is mainstream ;) Heh, well, I like to think so anyways..

OK, good enough. I want it to be THE mainstream. I want to see
Microsoft as a quiet brook meandering past the old folks' home. ;-)

Al> I'd be surprised if they get things fixed in a morning though
Al> ;)))

It will be interesting to see how long it does take them to get it
right.

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