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Microsoft's Overlooked Code Theft
Like2Byte was one of many readers to point out that "Newsforge is reporting that Microsoft was fined by a French court for three million francs "because it illegally included another company's proprietary source code in SoftImage 3D," something which (as the story points out) went mostly unremarked at the time. This is one of the points mentioned by Peruvian Senator David Villanueva Nuñez in his response to Microsoft FUD.
Oh yah, because ALL GPL code must work flawlessly right?
Free Mac Mini
Absolutely!
/. "Penguin Fetishists" would be interested enough to find-out how many Warez Servers are running Linux or a Linux-derrivative OS and Apache?
I wonder if the
Nah - It's been my experience that Linux-o-Philes and Penguin Fetishists are just the other side of the coin of Warez Pirates.
I dare anyone to prove me wrong!
I don't give a rat's behind about "karma" here or anywhere else. Don't like what I have to say here? Deal with it!
Okay, here's my GPL'd C++ code:
// eat me eat me
#incldue
void poop(eat poop){
**int foo = &
while(1){foo;}
}
It's GPL'd so it must be good!
What?
How much is that, about 10 bucks American?
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
But what they learned from "the Stacker incident" is that crime pays. And if you have the lawyers that MS has, and don't have any ethics that you count as worth anything, then they may be right.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
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Go check it out today and see all the fear, uncertainty and doubt that just mutters... "LOOK AT ME... LOOK AT ME!"
"LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!"
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~Admrlnxn
"I got your mom in my trunk"