begin quote On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:25:53 -0500 Lisa Seelye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 18:33, Spider wrote: > > Imagine the reprecautions for projects like > > Samba, Gnome, KDE, and other technologies that can be seen as > > "infringing" on some of MS turf. Its an easy, blunt lega weapon to > > weild against whole projects, stating that all progress past this > > point is only because you copied MS sources, weilding a large batch > > of patents, tradesecrets and copyright infringement claims and > > slamming large and wide. > Let the conspiracy theories fly! Ha. Ha. Yes, if you start to think that "Ms released the code on purpouse", in order to get a legal edge on the Open Source /Free Software projects, then you can discuss conspiracy theories. However, it wouldn't be the first time from MS side to go at people for tradesecrets, copyright- or patent-infringement. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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