Will Microsoft ever take a mainstream product open source?
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| I have always thought that Microsoft anti-GPL stance was strange given
| the control it gives developers about what their competitors can do
| with the code. In certain circumstances the GPL would appear to make
| much more sense for Microsoft than a more permissive license that
| allows others to benefit commercially from its work.
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| Anyway, Microsoft and the GPL? It would seem unlikely. It's worth
| noting that when Steve Ballmer referred to Linux as "a cancer"
| the issue he had was with the license, not the code.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/will_microsoft.html
It's already ironic how they messed about with the GPL just before striking a
deal with Novell. Never say never. They also mocked OLPC and then asked to
participate in the project (because it brings Linux to many millions of
children).
Ethics? what's that gonna cost me?
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| It seems to me that IT fraud comes in two main forms: those perpetrated
| for money or power, and involving failures to act ethically.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=776
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