[lug] A war to Free World?

[John Hernandez]

Maybe they can use Perl to develop a pattern matching tool that would expose GPL'ed code to M$ project supervisors.

"Riggs, Rob" wrote:
> 
> I think that they are really worried that if they use(d) any of this
> substandard and vulnerable GPL code in their own product, that they'll be
> forced to release parts of their codebase under the GPL.
> 
> It's actually a legitimate concern, since their codebase could be "GPL
> booby-trapped" by a disgruntled employee, and now that they are actually
> exposing their code to their partners, this fact could be discovered.
> 
> The fact of the matter is that the FSF has always been extremely cordial
> when trying to resolve GPL license disputes. (Though one must wonder how any
> meeting between the evil empire and the FSF over a GPL violation would
> go...)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Branaman [mailto:tbranam at firstworld.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:08 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: RE: [lug] A war to Free World?
> 
> Yea, I've notices that open source software has *so* much more "product
> instability", since it doesn't crash or freeze several times a day like
> Windoze ;-)
> 
> I'm curious about his claim that it will lead to "a breakdown of common
> industry design standards that could force valuable intellectual property
> into the public domain." Even if there *were* a breakdown of standards (like
> that would be anything new), HOW does that force ANYTHING into the public
> domain???? Besides, isn't that what happens to new technology after the
> patent runs out anyway?
> 
> Terry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of John Starkey
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:40 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] A war to Free World?
> 
> Looks like M$ took a bold step today. Kinda funny. The monopoly vs
> what... the people?
> 
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010503/tc/microsoft_linux_dc_1.html
> 
> Oh well.
> 
> John
> 
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