Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility?

Goatbert writes "Rafael Rivera over at WithinWindows.com has found evidence that Microsoft has potentially stolen code from an open source/GPL'd project (ImageMaster) for a utility made available on the Microsoft Store to allow download customers to copy the Windows 7 setup files to a DVD or USB Flash Drive. If Rivera's evidence holds up, this could be some serious egg in the face for Microsoft at a time when they're getting mostly good press from the tech media."

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Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code

[frovingslosh]

No, they did not. Borrow is the completely wrong word here. Maybe they stole the code, but they certainly didn't borrow it.

It hardly matters though. It is perfectly OK when Microsoft does this, as seen from a long lime of past actions. When you copy their code it is a felony, but when they take something that they want it's just business as usual.