And most agreed that the GPL is more an anti-copyright instrument than a viable alternative to the status quo. Marco van de Voort MS is the cancer. Linux is the radiation treatment.
Cancer is something which spreads beyond control and devastates everything around it.
Recently a small company in Portland tried to get a foot into the Microsoft door. This company contacted the powers that be at Gateway and indicated they would like to introduce a new product which would allow Gateway to be more competitive in the marketing of their computers. Gateway responded enthusiastically until they discovered the company they were dealing with had been an advocate of the Be operating system. Then they shut the magic door and replied they were not interested. Oddly enough, the product the company wanted to promote to Gateway was created, designed, and produced to run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, etc.