[ale] OT: newsflash: Microsoft is still the devil...open source beware

[hscast at charter.net (Scott Castaline)]

John Wells wrote:
> Every member of this list should read the following article:
> 
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070730120109643
> 
> Scary how keeping up with Microsoft is like reading Machiavelli...
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Apple's, I beleive is doing the same thing but in a more direct 
approach. Buying up the companies that are dual licensed such as CUPS. 
Oracle bought out the company that makes the DB engine that MySQL used 
in 5.0, putting MySQL at a disadvantage, by pulling the carpet out from 
under their feet. How many more situations like these are going to 
happen and how can they be stopped? Can they be stopped or are we all 
going to become drones of just a couple of Monopolists?