[lug] Microsoft outlaws open source with .NET

[Terry Branaman]

If they are really worried about "potentially viral software", what about
Visual Basic for Applications?

It also raises some interesting questions (though I haven't seen the text of
the new license) -- is Microsoft trying to say that nobody can access a web
site if the user is running Linux (or their PDA or phone uses a version of
Linux)???? Or that you can't load the Mobile Internet Toolkit and Perl on
the same machine?

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From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of Ken Weinert
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:40 AM
To: BLUG
Subject: [lug] Microsoft outlaws open source with .NET


Here's an excerpt:

The license for Microsoft's Mobile Internet Toolkit, which is in its
second beta release to developers, says that it may not be used with any
software under the Free Software Foundation's General Public License
(GPL) and six other forms of "potentially viral software." That language
refers to open source code's freely available and shared code licensing
agreements. The wording of the license cites the Linux OS and the Perl
scripting language as examples.


Full article:
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2781638,00.html

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