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On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:49 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > "the aim of free software is not to enable a healthy business on software but > rather to make it even impossible to make any income on software as a > commercial product," > Thomas Lutz, the manager of public affairs at Microsoft Austria, I would be reluctant to assume or assert that such a clever chap in such a major, and in their own eyes innovative, company as Microsoft might not understnad something so straightforward and significantly relevant to his own company's business model. Rather, I assumed that he was simply lying. In public. For profit. But I have no means of knowing, he may be lazy and ignorant enough not to actually understnad that what he has said, perhaps as a result of a company briefing and instruction, is incorrect. -- Dr Adrian Midgley www.defoam.net -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html