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At the Wizards of OS conference this year, Eben Moglen told several long stories aside from the official talks. One of them was about when he had a meeting with MS's strategy group that deals with Free Software. He said that after a long fruitless discussion, he simply asked (paraphrased), "why the heck don't you just GPL Windows? Make it clear that you are serious by getting somebody on the board we trust. Give him a big share package, so that it is clear you can't back out easily. And then play by the rules. Nobody would say anything against you, you would be just a normal citizen. With your money and manpower, you could decide in which direction Free Software moves, and nobody would have a problem with it. People would still buy Windows from you - and on top you could still offer proprietary stuff, while getting rid of all the negative press."
To which the MS guys, with a serious voice and without a moment's hesitation, only replied, "this we will never do"

who are about to use a slow connection...we salute you!...
Ist hier die Verbindung auf englisch....or..."here is the link in English". Well, according to babelfish anyway...

FYI, here is the list of speakers, with a short description of each person.

Well, apparently they've got at least one guy from that conference to speak at this one.

A link to the english front page, since the submitter seems to not have realized that it was in german. ;)

http://wiki.wizards-of-os.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl