They sometimes forget that their programmers use open source to beat
deadlines and produce "good" code
:-)
The GPL mandates that any software that incorporates source
code
already licensed under the GPL will itself become subject to the same
terms of the license. In the case of Microsoft's use of the GCC in the
Interix software, the company is only obliged to make available the
source code for the compiler -- a program that turns written code into
the ones and zeros that run on a computer -- not the entire software
product that the compiler ships with.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27511,00.html
(watch the date 4years old !!)
Ronny
Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
This month, SAP's Shai Agassi referred to open-source software
as 'intellectual property socialism.' In January, Bill Gates suggested
that free-software developers are communists. A few years earlier,
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the open-source operating system
Linux 'a cancer.' Considering what these guys say in public, I wonder
what dark words they utter in private--that al-Qaida uses open-source
software to plot terrorist attacks?
"The philosophy behind open-source software is simple. Instead
of zealously protecting source code--the blood and guts of any computer
program--open source encourages any programmer to tear apart the code
and build it back up again. The theory is that this collaborative
process encourages innovation and decreases bugs by increasing the
number of people with a stake in the project...
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