[plug] Care for some shared source, anyone ?

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 22:23, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Friday 08 November 2002 07:31 pm, Kai wrote:
> > General Public License Analysis Frequently Asked Questions
> 
> > This downloadable document was written for business decision makers and
> > legal counsel who are trying to understand the implications of the
> > General Public License (GPL). The analysis is most relevant to
> > technology companies, but has value for non-IT companies as well:
> 
> > http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/downloads/Gpl-faq.doc
> 
> They've got a cheek (as usual). They don't even allow you to mess with the 
> software and here they are throwing caution for a system that does...
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
> 

An important thing is remember is that its only software. Don't get
caught up in idealogy. Microsofts business model is selling software
like BP's is selling petrolem (even if they now call themselves Beyond
Petrolem) 

If Microsoft ever need to change their business model in order to remain
profitable that would be very interesting but in the meantime they're
not gonna budge and inch for free software except of course stuff like
IE (with a hefty eula) and Windows Media Player which is only free as in
Vodka.

Chris