No, this is a classic example of why private research instutions work much better than government-funded ones. Let me take your standpoint, and say this lab was instead kept alive using public funds with the hopes and dreams of something spectacular happening soon. What happens to the other people who are really making breakthroughs now? They've suddenly lost the ability to sustain this momentum, because this other, wildly unsuccessful institution has been given the the ability to attract more employees than them.
I can see that if Microsoft modifies or adds to a GPL'ed software package, that product will need to be copyleft-ized. What I'm curious about is, how does this affect their independently produced software (Windows, etc.) at all? I can see how whatever app they write using GNU/Linux libraries to do virtualization will need to be FOSS, but I fail to see how this will affect the software this virtualization package is meant to run. Won't users still need to buy a genuine copy of Windows, Office and the rest anyway?
Agreed. If it had a camera, I'd buy one today. I never thought I would use the camera that came with the phone I got with my wireless plan, but as it turns out I use it a lot, simply because it's always with me.
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Anyone on the inside have any details on how this works? Sounds like a gmail-type thing to me. If so, someone hook me up!
No, this is a classic example of why private research instutions work much better than government-funded ones. Let me take your standpoint, and say this lab was instead kept alive using public funds with the hopes and dreams of something spectacular happening soon. What happens to the other people who are really making breakthroughs now? They've suddenly lost the ability to sustain this momentum, because this other, wildly unsuccessful institution has been given the the ability to attract more employees than them.
I'd say borderlining FUD. What help is it to tell us that there's some huge security bug without telling us what it is?
I can see that if Microsoft modifies or adds to a GPL'ed software package, that product will need to be copyleft-ized. What I'm curious about is, how does this affect their independently produced software (Windows, etc.) at all? I can see how whatever app they write using GNU/Linux libraries to do virtualization will need to be FOSS, but I fail to see how this will affect the software this virtualization package is meant to run. Won't users still need to buy a genuine copy of Windows, Office and the rest anyway?
Agreed. If it had a camera, I'd buy one today. I never thought I would use the camera that came with the phone I got with my wireless plan, but as it turns out I use it a lot, simply because it's always with me.
Encyclopedias need to keep up a certain standard for what they're putting out too, garbage is garbage.