On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 08:45:35AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > >>And unfortunately, even though I suspect that many people would very > >>much like a legal distribution based on Linux that could include all the > >>parts necessary to be a viable competitor to Microsoft, the GPL will > >>always prevent it from happening. > >That's a funny place to put the blame. > Sometimes the truth is funny... By design, there is no legal way to > distribute a combination of GPL'd code and anything with different > restrictions. So, whatever number of software patents exist, plus the That's clearly not true, as a substantial portion of Fedora consists of code with licenses with different restrictions than those of the GPL. But, this claim seems unrelated to your earlier one, about being "a viable competitor". -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
