re: MS Office [ was Re: Adaptec AHA-2940 and Linux ]

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> "TMatsumu" == TMatsumu  <TMatsumu@example.com> writes:

    TMatsumu> Form: Reply Text: (11 lines follow) If you have
    TMatsumu> unlimited time, you can look under the hood of binary
    TMatsumu> files.  Andrew Schulman did that with DOS, Netware, and
    TMatsumu> later Windows, and Matt Peitrick did that with windows
    TMatsumu> before he started working at MS.

Unfortunately, I hope to use my knowledge to contribute to the
freeware movement.  If I ever use "sourcer" to look under the hood of
a proprietary program, I am forever prohibited from working on (ie,
contributing any code to) a similar project for the FSF, for example.
That's RMS's policy, which may be overly conservative, not law, as far
as I know.  After all, he has a huge empire to protect: in terms of
number of programs, not units in use, there are far more programs
available under the Copyleft than under MS's copyright.  I could also
lie about it, I suppose.

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                           Stephen John Turnbull
University of Tsukuba                                        Yaseppochi-Gumi
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences  http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/
Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305 JAPAN                 turnbull@example.com