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)."

Comments

Gnu trademark?

[fishbowl]

Did Microsoft just give the FSF grounds for a suit by specifying the GNU trademark in their license, using the trade name without permission, and without acknowledgement that GNU is a trademark property of the respective trademark holder?

why so excited about reading MS source?

[claygate]

if microsoft code is so buggy and prone to being "bad" from what i've read around here, why is everyone so interested in reading/utilising it?

Get YOUR comments out from here!

[ebonic plague]

Or whateva you be tryin to say. Check this out: this site be for discussin $hit. Ain't no point in sendin out a bunch of unleavened arguments and making yoself look like a punk. People be postin $hit and havin arguments so that they can sharpen up they reasoning. THEN they can aks they rep or some reporta to listen to what they have to say and act like they know what they be talkin about cause they already shared they opinion and people be agreein wit it.

Re:Unenforceable, self-contradictory, and stupid

[release7]

I've got news for you, this is the "free" market at work. In a true free market, he who has the power has the might and the right.

This "free" market philosophy is total nonsense. A fair and level playing field will never happen on its own. It's a fiction of the modern capitalist imagination. It's utopian, idealistic, and total bullshit. Unfortunately, too many geeks have bought into this party line which has paralyzed them into inaction.

The fact is, what works best is an intelligent and difficult balance of capitalism, socialism, and democracy. In their pure form, none of these ideologies work by themselves but when the best elements from each are used, the best possible society results. It's time to reject simplistic notions that a "free" market will save us from the tyranny of ourselves.

What it's really time for is geeks to get off their collective asses and doing something about all this MS bullshit. Until that happens, I'm stuck hear reading the 2,000th post full of intellectual crank yanking that doesn't do a bit of fucking good.