Re: Showcase for open & free software (Was: Busy day for announcements)

Yeah, try to imagine the Internet without the protocol that Tim-Berners-Lee developed for communications and set free onto the world.

I am really glad though that the nature of IT made it impractical for politicians to find a way to regulate it. Not that anything they impose is practical. With patent law, Big Tech has to waste millions of $ with patent sharing agrreements, and a Microsoft 'patent" that cross-references country codes with a method to match them with countries, except the patent language is much longer and more hilarious.

--Alan Cassidy

On 07/11/2025 7:03 PM EDT Jack Woehr <jack.woehr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Which is more or less what IBM has been trying to clue us to for Lo, these past ten years ... "Open source is not a luxury, it's a lifeline."
The platform would be gone by now if not for the obstinacy, determination, and plain hard work of the Rochester open source crew under the enlightened leadership.



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Subject: Re: Showcase for open & free software (Was: Busy day for announcements)

But with the invasion of the financial engineering snake known as "private equity", expect to see breathtaking increases on maintenance fees and reduced cross-vendor integration options--anything to boost revenue.