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)."

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So competing means????

[teambpsi]

Thou shall not be competent?

Re:So competing means????

[Pig Hogger]

Thou shall not be competent?

And thou shalt make legislature pass laws favourizing thy product.

That's typical bourgeois attitude. Case in point: in the late 1700's, a brewer named Molson moved to Canada, where 99.99% of the french population, being from Normandy, made their own applejack cider (grapes dont's grow there). Rather than corner the cider market, the incompetent Molson had the governor pass a law prohibiting the people from making their own cider.

Voilà! Instant market for it's horsepiss beer!

That's typical of the the way anglo-saxons do business: shove their inferior crap down other's throats. And then, they wonder why planes crash into buildings...

Re:So competing means????

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Re:Geeze

[Tremul]

Unfortunately this is a way of competing. Microsoft has chosen to take the Toyna Harding approach.

Re:Brain Control?

[Anonymous Coward]

To paraphrase a common pro-GPL apology, "If you don't like the terms, don't use the code."

Re:Unenforceable, self-contradictory, and stupid

[Anonymous Coward]

Capitalism != Free Markets

That may have been an upper level course, so I can understand your confusion.

Re:Brain Control?

[Anonymous Coward]

imagine a school that learns you how to add 1+1 and...

It looks like your school tried that trick for your English classes ;-)

cheers,
gkd

Listen up yo

[ebonic plague]

GPL software represents some of their strongest competition, so a "punishment" that does not help GPL developers is not a punishment at all.

That's some bull$hit straight up. Tell me this. If GPL be such strong competition and all that, why do they need some judge to save they a$$? Ya'll OSS fools need to get ovah the fact that if yo game was strong, you wouldn't need to wait for some court to MAKE Micro$oft cut you some slack. Don't nobody respect no whiny a$$ busta who always crying about how somebody else took they whatevah.

Fact is, none a ya'll OSS software be ready fo prime time. And when it is, like Apache which been tearin up $hit fo a while now, M$ cain't fsck wit it. So all ya'll need to do is quit stressin' about M$ and hone ya'll skills. When ya'll are better than M$ ya'll know it cause you won't need no judges or no punk DOJ bustas.

Re:So?

[ljaguar]

scared $hitless.

Am I alright if that read "scared <a variable named hitless>"?

I was scratching for full 10 seconds before I realized '$'=='s'