Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[TJ Parker]

let's use terminology correctly, please.

> 1. Allowing Open Source to Governments. Ie: Russia..BTW MSFT
> will allow 97% open source...the other 3% will share at the
> Redmond headquarters only.

there's no way that this can be construed as "open source", in the way the term is used by the "open source" movement. it means you can see some or all of the source code. it doesn't mean that you can recompile it all yourself, that you can make meaningful changes (i.e. ones that get incorporated into the source code, so you don't have to figure out how to redo it every time they make changes to the source), that you can discuss it with others or give feedback or combine it with other open source software. its not a whole lot different than if intel, for example, were to offer to send you jpeg's of the masks used to make the processor you're using. well, a little different, but not a whole lot. it gives you information, but it does not give you "power" in any real sense ...

Open Source is formally defined here (and this is the "official definition"):

http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

> 3. Stock Split.

hmm. until 2000, wasn't this a yearly event?