From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:36:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:36:31 -0400 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.59.2]:12123 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:36:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3B340E0A.4010208@kalifornia.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:33:30 -0700 From: Ben Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010619 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: askbill@microsoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux and Open Source. In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miles Lane wrote: >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2777283,00.html > [ . . . ] > >BillG -- We keep making it easier and easier, and anything people want source >code for, we'll figure out a way to get it to them. It's kind of a strange >thing in a way because most commercial customers don't want to recompile >kernels or things like that. But they want to be able to know that things can >be supported. > >We have some very cool tools now where we don't have to ship you the source. >You can debug online, through the Internet. So it means you don't have to get >a bunch of CDs. If you really want it for debugging and patching things, we >can do that through the Internet. That's a real breakthrough in terms of >simple source access. I don't know that anyone has ever asked for the source >code for Word. If they did, we would give it to them. But it's not a typical >request. >- > Hey, Bill, here's my address, can you ship me the full source to Word? ;) -- : __o : -\<, : 0/ 0 -----------