On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> > This wreaks of a practical joke. I only wonder what the motivation is
> > behind this?
>
> Note the smiley. I liked it, though. It's almost believable. You can
> construct an entire alternate reality on this kind of stuff. What do you
> think it would take for Linus to sell out?
That's a reflief (I knew it was a joke but Bruce's description was good: a
strange mix of horror and shock).
I think Linus should sell out. If Microsoft was stupid enough to think
they could reign in Linux after the source code has already been in more
hands than a stripper's breasts then more power to him. This is why I
knew the TeX story was bogus. There's no way they could possibly hope to
make fifty cents off of TeX because a thousand screaming programmers
world-wide would just make a compatible version, call it SeX, and crush
Microsoft's silly aspriations of TeX domination.
Also, that quote of the Chinese restaurant owner at the end was a dead
give away. :)
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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