I think the article explains the obvious. Of course they had to use
open source code at some point to get this solution to work. It think
that it can safely be assumed. I do admit that if they released
something along the lines of let's say MS Works using the GPL then we
can agree that there maybe a change in atitude.
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On Jul 23, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]
> wrote:
From /.
ozmanjusri writes "While Microsoft presented its recent embrace of
the GPL
as 'a break from the ordinary,' and the press spoke of them as going
to great
lengths to engage the open source community,' as is often the case
with
Microsoft, it turns out they had an ulterior motive. According to
Stephen
Hemminger, an engineer with Vyatta, Microsoft's Hyper-V used open-
source
components in a network driver and the company released the code to
avoid
legal action over a GPL violation. Microsoft's decision to embrace
the GPL
was welcomed by many in the open source community, but their failure
to
honestly explain the reason behind the release will have squandered
this
opportunity to build trust, something which is sadly lacking in most
people's
dealings with Microsoft."
The absolute total most important thing we can learn from this: M$
respects
the GPL!! Their lawyers advised them not to mess with it.
Besides that, we can safely state they are still as evil as ever. no
news
there :-)
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/23/1327205/Microsofts-Code-Contribution-Due-To-GPL-Violation?from=rss
rgds,
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