MS "bans" GPL

[Steve Holden]

<mkx at excite.com> wrote in message
news:7iq1ktcmslo24kbr8qvob2g3hpgleuf025 at 4ax.com...
> 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."
>
Not at all. They simply don't care.

regards
 Steve
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