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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Re:Welcome To The Real World.

[psavo]

Since the GPL makes it near impossible for an entity to simply produce and sell software as its core business, it is unsurprising that the world's largest software company would be wary of doing anything that encouraged the spread of this meme.

This is one of the goals too. A SW company must support it's code. If it's only producing it, then it's no good for anyone.
(We're talking about big software projects, not some dinky cout code).

resort to conspiracy theories about how MSFT wants to steal their code

But this is exactly how it is. Maybe my code is not one MS would steal, but someone other's is. By stealing I mean merely using it without _contributing_ all the fixes/features back.
One of the main features (for me) of GPL is feeding all the code back to the pool.