[Golden Eagle]

Coral Snake - what an interesting read that was indeed. Thanks for your thoughts which you so clearly articulated.

I agree that Linux is in it's current incarnation a detriment to the US software industry, and that the General Public License (GPL) does have a viral-type potential to eat through one's intellectual property unknowingly. I take your comments, as those of someone who has and still works with various software licenses as very respectable and also so obviously of one who cares deeply for their country the United States.

Your exposure of "Free Software" radicals like Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman was particularly effective, along with remarks that companies still can't produce profits even without providing any warranties to the software.

The GPL/Linux softare package is as you state the product of foreigners and anti-American types who offer an unfairly competitive product that feasts off our own US proprietary software market. I read a report that one vendor's normal income of $100 million in Unix sales had recently been replaced by $10 million in Linux sales. These are NOT the kind of decisions we need American businesses to be making! Thanks for standing up and speaking out on such an important topic!

[CodeMonkey]

I agree that Linux is in it's current incarnation a detriment to the US software industry

Wah bloody wah. Commercial trucking "in its current incarnations is a detriment to the US railroad industry." It's called competition. Linux has proven one thing: superior products don't win by being sold in the computer industry. If they did you'd be using BeOS on your PC and Windows would have be consigned to the dustheap of PC history. Yes, I think BeOS still does own both Windows and Linux in many ways.

The GPL/Linux softare package is as you state the product of foreigners and anti-American types

OMG those evil foreigners! If you were born in the 19th century I dare say you'd be one of the members of the Know Nothing party.

You sound like the right wing version of a lefty who calls every person who disagrees with him a racist. Patriotism is not blind allegance to one's country, that's called nationalism. You sound more like a nationalist.

unfairly competitive product that feasts off our own US proprietary software market

Where is your proof of this? Empirical evidence please? Microsoft has frequently gotten in hot water over IP violations. My conscience says that even if OSS developers abuse IP laws, all things being equal Microsoft is no better. In fact worse probably since it has the money to never violate anyone's copyrights.

These are NOT the kind of decisions we need American businesses to be making!

God forbid that American corporations move to a less expensive platform. Our economy will benefit more by the decreased spending on exorbinate licensing fees.

Thanks for standing up and speaking out on such an important topic astroturing for my company for free!