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Microsoft States GPL3 Doesn't Apply to Them
pilsner.urquell writes "Microsoft yesterday issued a statement proclaiming that it isn't bound by GPLv3. Groklaw has a very humorous rejoinder to the company's claim. From that article: 'They think they can so declare, like an emperor, and it becomes fiat. It's not so easy. I gather Microsoft's lawyers have begun to discern the GPL pickle they are in. In any case it won't be providing any support or updates or anything at all in connection with those toxic (to them) vouchers it distributed as part of the Novell deal ... These two -- I can't decide if it's an elaborate dance like a tango or more like those games where you place a cloth with numbers on the floor and you have to get into a pretzel with your hands and feet to touch all the right numbers. Whichever it is, Novell and Microsoft keep having to strike the oddest poses to try to get around the GPL. If they think this new announcement has succeeded, I believe they will find they are mistaken. In other words, not to put too fine a point on it, GPLv3 worked.'" EWeek has further analysis of this proclamation.
...that tax laws don't apply to me. Oh, and those pesky laws about parking and speeding, too.
So I guess Microsoft's EULA does not apply either?
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I can't decide if it's an elaborate dance like a tango or more like those games where you place a cloth with numbers on the floor and you have to get into a pretzel with your hands and feet to touch all the right numbers.
That's the most bass-ackwards mangling of Twister I've ever heard. Didn't these people have childhoods!?
--Obyron
As always, Microsoft remains committed to working with the open source software community to help improve interoperability for customers working in mixed source environments and deliver IP assurance.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Most the time those things from big companies are printed in high quality glossy paper and look so nice! Maybe they could be framed and set up for display.
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Don't bring facts into it; he's rolling.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Are you people neocons or something? I don't see how the parent's statement about Presidential "signing statements" is a troll. Mod the damned thing funny, because it IS funny.
PS- "funny" grants no karma. Now go ahead and mod me "offtopic".
-mcgrew (sm62704)
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t's been 14 seconds since you hit 'reply'.
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