[ic] [ic][OT] unwanted mailinglist subscriptions

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sat Aug 10 16:10:01 2002


At 02:24 PM 8/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Saturday 10 August 2002 01:28 pm, Jim Balcom wrote:
> > MS would have bought it to take control and make money. While not as brazen
> > about it as MS, RH has been displaying a general trend toward this for a
> > number of years.
> > MS wouldn't want it because they can't deal with Open Source and there is
> > no way to change Interchange from Open Source.
>
>Umm - they need to make money to survive - all to many advocates of
>"opensource" also think it means "free" - they love to have some make it
>available, but they don't want to pay for it's benifits.
>
>While I have no idea how much money RH put into interchange, I have no doubt
>it was much more then the average end user has put into it.
>--
>  Robert Brandtjen

Can we kill this thread, please? What's done is done.

- Ed L.


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