Public Domain Python
Jeff Bauer
jbauer at rubic.com
Thu Sep 14 14:19:19 EDT 2000
Cameron Laird wrote:
> I've been arguing for free and open-source software
> for years, and I'm still subject to transmission of
> the dumbfounded-and-slackjawed look when a manager
> whines about the license of *Python*. 'Anyone know
> a graceful way to explain the violence SAP, Microsoft,
> CA, Oracle, ... do with *their* licenses?
Several years ago Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman wrote
a book titled "Good Omens".
One of the protagonists, demon-from-hell Crowley, sends
a Microsoft licensing agreement down to the infernal
Contracts Division with an advisory note scribbled
across the top:
"Learn, guys."
-Jeff
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