Slides Of Microsoft Anti-GPL Advocacy

An anonymous reader links to these slides outlining Microsoft's position on Free software licenses, in particular the GPL, writing "Regarding the latest memo from MSFT, the current politics is to be against 'copyleft' type licensing... Protecting freedom is fundamental for Free Software and MSFT knows that. They don't want licenses that protect our freedom." Makes an interesting companion piece to the anti-OSS memo mentioned the other day.

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they should have used OpenOffice

[stonebeat.org]

Impress!!! to create the presentation :)

Are slashdotters that gullible?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, you too can believe anything and everything that is posted on the internet! Especially when someone claims it was created by MSFT! Anyone can whip up some slides, take pictures of them, and post them on a random web site.

Re:It's a bunch of freakin jpg's

[Jose]

It's just a bunch of jpg's on a non MS site. Just pointing out the obvious, what verification do we have these came from M$?

did't you see the little "Microsoft" logo's on the pages?! It must be from Microsoft...

you don't get it

[SweetAndSourJesus]

See, Microsoft is a Big Evil Company. Their interest isn't making money, it's robbing people of their freedom. Withness the Internet Explorer debacle. Microsoft knew that I wasn't going to make them a nickel, but they released it for free so that they could take away our right to someone else's browser. Shit howdy, man, they don't care if they lose every nickel they've got so long as they get to keep robbing us of our rights!

Don't you see, man? They're eeeeevil. So evil that anyone who alleges that they did something evil is automatically right. So evil that when they release good software we must overlook the fact that the software is good and instead focus on how they are bad.

Microsoft operates the world's largest kitten and puppy grinding facility! Fact!

Re:It's a bunch of freakin jpg's

[Maxwell'sSilverLART]

Verification? If you can't trust something you read on Slashdot, posted by an Anonymous Coward, then who can you trust?

(</joke>, for the sake of the moderators)

Re:My Thoughts

[qwijibrumm]

We all know MS is bad and they are hard at work on Evil Master Plan v1.0

Are you kidding, they've been artificially inflating their product numbers for years. Seriously how much of an improvement was "Evil Master Plan Me(TM)" over "Evil Master Plan 98SE(TM)"? I think they're working on "Evil Master Plan Zt(TM)" right now.

Man, I remember when computing was easy and they only had "Hey, I Think Being A Little Evil Can Make Us Money 5.2(TM)"

I guess it just shows, version numbers don't sell. Year numbers don't sell. But cool letters equal cash!

Re:Imposing the GPL is like imposing free speech

[pjrc]

the funny thing about free speech is that governments are free to chose how they express them selfs, is America free as in speech, yes but so is China, China chose to keep thier speech tightly controlled and thats thier right. In fact I think it would be a violation of human rights to force China to allow its people to freely express their own opinions of the goverment.

your spell's is sorry

Here are the slides...

[Shads]

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Slide1: Embrace
Slide2: Extend
Slide3: ???
Slide4: Profit

It definetly has worked in the past for ms products.