MS "bans" GPL

[Gerhard Häring]

On 3 Jul 2001 13:29:29 GMT, David LeBlanc <whisper at oz.nospamnet> wrote:
>In article <7iq1ktcmslo24kbr8qvob2g3hpgleuf025 at 4ax.com>, mkx at excite.com 
>says...
>> Do the folks at MS _want_ us to find them unreasonable?
>> 
>> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010702/tc/ms_attacks_open_source_1.html
>> 
>> "The license for Microsoft's Mobile Internet Toolkit, which is in its
>> second beta release to developers, says that it may not be used with
>> any software under the Free Software Foundation's General Public
>> License (GPL) and six other forms of "potentially viral software."
>> That language refers to open source code's freely available and shared
>> code licensing agreements. The wording of the license cites the Linux
>> OS and the Perl scripting language as examples."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>Now that Microsoft has bought their way out of most of the anti-trust 
>suit (cheap too! nationa news reported only a few hundred thousand 
>dollars contributed to Bush's campaign and his inaugral ball), it's only 
>a matter of time before the license for the OS prohibits installation of 
>open source 3rd party software. After all, you only pay for the computer 
>- MS seems to think they own it otherwise. (One can only hope that the 
>states attornies general go forward with their anti-trust suit and so 
>does the EU.)
>
>I wonder how much they paid for the UK government with it's de-facto "MS 
>all the way" policy? You have to wonder what was going through the Blair 
>government's mind when they flew government ministers to Redmond to kick-
>off the UK government services on the web project. There's a wee bit of 
>excitement over there right now since the services that are already up 
>can only be accessed by Internet Explorer due to reliance on propietary 
>certificates.
>
>XP: the coming evil - you thought it was bad now? Just wait.

You don't try to spread FUD, do you? No matter what MS or any other company
writes into their "license agreements", not everything is compatible with
German or US or whatever laws.

Gerhard
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