>Jerry, if you havn't read this yet. the middle of the article is great.
>http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm

Ya! I saw that. I even did come 'combing' myself to verify with my own eyes.
You should see the posting I made in the Chatter forum concerning the new EULA that Microsoft wrote for it Internet Toolkit SDK. It says, in essence, that if you use their SDK to create drivers for your device adaptors then you CANNOT distribute the source to that driver, nor can you create drivers for that device using GPL tools, nor can you distribute SDK and GPL drivers 'in conjunction'. Microsoft likes the Bill of Rights when they can apply its provisions to themselves, but they distain it when those Rights conflict with their business plan. Ruthless isn't the half of it. That episode where they were caught tampering with the court evidence appears to be only the tip of the iceberg of what they are capable of doing.


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>'On Friday, several FreeBSD volunteers combing through Microsoft products, including the new Windows 2000 operating system, found numerous instances where Microsoft had made use of their software -- something perfectly legal for it to do. The Microsoft spokesman, in acknowledging that fact, said it didn't contradict the company's many recent anti-open-source statements. He said that's because Microsoft's main objection has been to Linux, which has a more restrictive licensing arrangement than FreeBSD.'
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>did you read the Red Hat is going to make some announcement next week about a new database server they are putting out... that... competes with MSSQL or oracle. ?

I saw that too. I am wondering if they will write their own DB from scratch or using an existing one, like PostgreSQL? (I'd go with PostgreSQL - a VERY powerful, full featured OOP RDBMS.
JLK

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>Bob Lee