Re: Again: list of advantages of the xGPL

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:19, Roger Fujii wrote:

> Sorry, too many inaccuracies to let this one go....
>
> Marco Pietrobono <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > E & E REQUIRES the UNDISCLOSURE. Otherwise, it is just new
> > > > functionality, not an embrace and extends strategy.
> > >
> > > If you cause other people's stuff to break, and it takes them time
> > > to fix this (and *any* product that has *any* QA cycle will suffer
> > > a lag between the time the feature was added and the release that
> > > contains it), it is an E & E tactic.
> >
> >   the addition of CCS has not break anything and has not been done
> >   in one day. Same for the new java classes (they needs to be used,
> >   you know...).
>
> Look, here is a simple example.  Let's say they came up with a FAT64
> and used linux's partition type for it.  It's documented and
> disclosed.  Do you think it will have no effect?

This reminds me of IBM's misuse of the FreeBSD partition ID:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD

For awhile, IBM kept claiming that they did not support FreeBSD.
Fortunately, they finally realized (after much screaming) that they had
misappropriated a documented partition ID and fixed their BIOS.

Sean
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