[Baypiggies] Marginally Relevant: Open Source Value to Companies

[Andrew Dalke]

On Dec 21, 2009, at 5:36 AM, Aahz wrote:
> Despite the recent embrace of Python and Open Source by Microsoft as
> represented by IronPython,

As a reminder of history, Microsoft shipped a product based on Python in 1996

  http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-ships-python-code-in-1996.html

though I don't think that was much of an embrace.

Historically Microsoft hasn't had a problem with open source licenses like BSD, it's with free software licenses like the GPL. See for example

  http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357


				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com