Z:gnu-www-ja-2001-09-24-CPI--2d5d4a-Tony Stanco will also say a fe/en

Tony Stanco will also say a few words on: Why the world's richest company is attacking the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) by calling it a &ldquo;cancer&rdquo;, a &ldquo;destroyer&rdquo; of innovation, &ldquo;anti-American&rdquo;? Whether this is true, or whether Microsoft dislikes the GPL because the four freedoms it establishes for computer users make monopolies hard to sustain? How Free Software created products, like the GNU/Linux operating system, that compete with Microsoft's Windows on heavy-duty servers in the back office? Why the principles of the new Intellectual Age are fundamentally different from those of the previous Industrial Age? Whether Software Freedom can restore innovation and creativity to the software industry and provide a way to solve the Microsoft antitrust question? Whether Microsoft's .Net initiative will inevitably continue its monopoly? Or will Free Software's DotGNU project break the Microsoft stranglehold and liberate computer users to control the software they use?