From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
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> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> > I don't think that. Partly it's people kicking in free time/work but
also
> > it's where comps are willing to cooperate on doing bits of the
> > "infrastrucure" they need e.g HP'es work on Itanium
porting, IBM'es work
> on
> > PPC porting, many comps (inc HP & IBM) on clustering etc. WRT the
desktop
> I
> > think it may end up being the actual major hardware vendors (Dell, Sony
et
> > al) who end up driving that (as they should).
>
> These corps are cooperating with the 'movement' on minor details. I don't
> see it lasting and widening in scope. Why would Dell and Sony cooperate so
> that they can compete on hardware alone when they could do better by not
> cooperating?
>

Because they are competing on hardware. How is bundling Win XP on both Sony
& Dell boxes doing that? If dell get some 3'rd party hardware "XP
certified"
then Sony can use it too in just the same way.


> I still think there's a major disconnect between the intent and long term
> affect of the GPL and corporate America.
>

If the GPL people have any guts they'll try & use that to make
shortening copyright terms politically acceptable (if need be only on
software).

Adam

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