Hardcore
by T. Colin Dodd
Q&A: Open-source backer Eben Moglen says software a ‘renewable’ resource
Q: What about Microsoft and its occasional patent threats to Linux?
A: My job has been preparing for those activities for more years than Microsoft has been preparing. I have been thinking about how their patent portfolio might be used against the free world since long before the bulk of the free world was my client. I have spent more time studying that problem than Microsoft has spent creating that problem. It doesn’t keep me awake at nights but it keeps me at work during the day. If in the process of irreversible change, Microsoft launches its missiles, which other dying empires like the Soviet Union, have managed not to do, but if as a dying empire Microsoft launches its missiles, we will protect our clients. If they die without launching their missiles, it will be better for everyone.
Q: Do you personally use much proprietary software today?
A: No, none. I have never been a Windows user. I have never used the Macintosh OS.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Well, Soviet Union did manage (guess it wasn’t *really* that hard, given that Russian people are not paranoid for the fear of “being wrong” after all).
Let’s look how the dying United States empire will. So far it doesn’t (think “our oil there”), and its people mostly just don’t care as far as can be seen over the Pool.
Hey folks find some mature Russians around you and ask them if current America seems like 70’s SU to them?