Of course, if you own the entire copyright on your GPL application/code
you don't have a problem.

Just require anyone that wants to run your application on Windows to buy
a commercial liscence...

It avoids the Microsoft liscence problem, and encourages people to move
to linux, especially when you tell them that the version for Windows is
exactly the same as the version for linux, and the only reason you have
to charge them to use it on Windows is that Microsoft won't allow you to
give them the program free ( beer and libre ). :)

Of course, I'm being a little overly simplistics, but the tactic appeals
to me, at least in a "send me a free pizza to use my program on Windows"
kind of way.

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Doug Foskey
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] (FWD) The Microsoft penalty that isn't - Tech News -
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        I agree (sometimes with KF. BUT, we could set up a check for
'M$' in the 
code, & so generate another 'BSofD' for M$. (They would be so silly they

probably would never check for the foreign code enclosed - otherwise why
dont 
they fix some of the existing bugs?? )
DF
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