Comment microsoft officially out to lunch (Score 1) 1169
Microsoft seems a bit like the neurotic who you always knew was a little bit wacky but who suddenly turns out to be absolutely, unequivocally, 100% batshit insane. are you kidding me?? outlaw open source?
I was always a little unsure abt the arguments that source code is "speech" in the sense of the First Amendment's speech protections, but this M$ thing has me a believer. it's a real-life reductio ad absurdum.
this is flat-out the most lunatic argument I've ever seen emerge from the business world, and I own books by Peter Drucker.
I was always a little unsure abt the arguments that source code is "speech" in the sense of the First Amendment's speech protections, but this M$ thing has me a believer. it's a real-life reductio ad absurdum.
this is flat-out the most lunatic argument I've ever seen emerge from the business world, and I own books by Peter Drucker.
