what's with all these charlie browns? (Score 1)

How is it that after all these years, starting with Borg's first attempt back in the mid-1970s at locking up open-source software via licensing that people are still trying to do deals with his company? Would it have anything to do with greed and the desire to succeed vicariously the way Borg did when he signed a nondisclosure agreement with Big Blue way back when? Did you really think in your wildest dreams that there somehow would be an exception in your case? Now you're saying, "oh, he's done it again! He's pulled the football right out from under our feet." How many more times will it take before people wake up to the way things are done in Redmond? When Borg walks up to you and says, "show me yours and I'll show you mine," are you going to tell him to piss off? Probably not. There are too many dollars at stake. Right?

BTW, the DMCA has no teeth in the matter at hand and Borg knows that. If it did, why would he insist on a nondisclosure agreement? He might have simply pointed to protection under copyright law.