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[News] Microsoft Reveals Fear of the GPL, Licence Shows Sabotage Attempt

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Reveals Fear of the GPL, Licence Shows Sabotage Attempt
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:05:36 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft's overtures towards open source show just how scared it is 

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| Indeed, the licence does not appear to require that the source code of 
| derivative works be made available to users who receive binary copies of 
| software products. So it appears that this conflicts with a major requirement 
| for OSI approval, that is, the criterion that, if a derivative software work 
| is distributed, the source code must be provided or made available....Open 
| Source is built on trust, the positive trust of software developers that 
| co-developers share common goals in each project and are not working at 
| cross-purposes or trying to sabotage the community.       
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41395


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