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Story: Sam Ramji: Open source is burgeoning at MicrosoftTotal Replies: 1
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chenlevy

Dec 24, 2008
3:23 AM EDT
Sam Ramji: [...] Software is fundamentally a legal business: a copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret-based industry. [...]

No. it is not. Software is fundamentally about people solving problems using technology. The legal business is there to prevent people from using technology. This illustrates the difference between free and non free software.
gus3

Dec 24, 2008
10:20 AM EDT
chenlevy:

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but if you can flesh that out more, especially vis-a-vis the GPL and various other FOSS licenses, you would have an excellent article for LXer. :-)

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