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Microsoft And The GPL/LGPL
AnimeFreak writes "In this CNET news article, it talks about how Microsoft's new license that will allow competing companies to read-over software code for their products does not allow software covered under the GPL/LGPL licensing agreement (such as Linux, SAMBA, and Mozilla)."
In this mainstream news site, they talk about what we talked about last week.
Is this really news?
Microsoft and other commercial software companies write software, license and sell it for a profit, which pisses off the open source community. Story at 11.
There is nothing in the license that prohibits the BSD license. This is only there to annoy RMS and company.
Besides in some ways it's the same as GPL: Microsoft wrote the original code, so they get to decide on how derivatives get distributed.
Then again this is the same website where people bitch about Slashdot's responsibility to slashdotted webservers and how The Great Slashdot Whine Out will strike a blow for Freedom so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised after all.
Stop your god damn whining! What are ya from New Jersey or ya just dunt get laid?
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As every good Slashdrone knows, MSFT is the only entity that can steal intellectual "property". For everybody else, there is no such thing as intellectual property, and it's called "sharing". Thank you for reminding u--oh! That's the muezzin. Time to bow towards Cambridge and pray.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Absolutely. For that matter, nobody held a gun to your head and made you drive. They do, however, hold a gun to your head if you don't pay your taxes and it was the oil-auto axis that corrupted the government into subsidizing roads more than rails. So, how do you break up the oil-auto-government monopoly? AFAIK, you can stage a tax revolt based on the percentage of your money being used to fund roads, but there isn't a strong enough groundswell yet to pull that off. Also, the damage has been done. We already live in suburbs with no rail service.
Just think. If Standard Oil had remained a monopoly, they might have charged confiscatory prices, and people might not have been so eager to move to Levitown. Cities might not have lost their tax base and declined into urban blight. The air might be a lot cleaner.
The last thing we need is for the government to "solve" the IT problems the way it "solved" the energy industry problems.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?