"And don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle."
"Finally, the social welfare result that a Windows monopoly is not always worse than a Linux-Windows monopoly was also unexpected. This questions the social desirability of policies aimed at guaranteeing Linux's survival."
"The only sparks that flew were when Microsoft made it abundantly clear that they would use their patent portfolio to prevent the spread of GPL software. Section seven of the GPL now seems the most prescient writing Richard Stallman has ever done."
"The open source tools that I explore in this article are (with their associated licenses):: Gnuplot (GPL); GNU Octave (GPL); Scilab (Scilab); MayaVi (BSD); Maxima (GPL)"
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