On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:11:30 +0100, Mike Hearn mike@plan99.net wrote:
Most of the time, the code itself is the best documentation, and it'd take a government with steel balls to force Microsoft to open source Windows. That'd almost guarantee its bankruptcy.
I thought the current crew were supposed to be big on "cojones". We can take on international terrorism, overtly invade two countries, go against the UN, tear up the Geniva convention, torture prisoners but can not enforce commercial law in at home...?
[No political flames please] just putting the steel-balls arguement in context. I think its more likely that M$ is a source of major foreign revenue (and just maybe political funding) and they dont want to spoil the party.
Anyway , any speculation on all that could be a ML in its own right and not very productive here.
BTW. I thought at one stage they were offering source code before the judge refused it and was later thrown off the case for being "anti-M$". I may be mistaken but I had that from a freind who is a pretty reliable source of information.
regards.