Re: [tlug] No, Really... Windows Is Free

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Dave M G writes:

 > > One thing you may have missed in your piece is unlicensed use of
 > > *partial* resources.  For example, people who use fonts received with
 > > Windows under Linux, or MSFT Office clip art with OOo.
 > 
 > You may have just inadvertently sparked a new article. This may be 
 > related to an idea I was having (that is kind of half baked at this 
 > point) about the use of things like video codecs and whatnot to be able 
 > to play proprietary file formats.
 > 
 > If you have any more comments about the issue as you see it, I'd love to 
 > hear more.

No, I don't at the moment, except that there's a long thread on
emacs-devel@example.com labeled "Release Plans" featuring me, Richard
Stallman, Tom Lord, and Alan Mackenzie (plus a few others who come and
go) about why Emacs doesn't allow dynamicly loaded .so's (the usual
way that plugins are supported by the Linux kernel, aka DLLs on
Windows or .dylib on Mac).  It's only peripherally related to the
"piracy is good for Microsoft" line, but might be of some interest if
you're going to get into the mix-n-match free+proprietary territory.