[lug] Microsoft outlaws open source with .NET

[Ken Scott]

on 7/6/01 3:54pm, Tom Tromey at tromey at redhat.com wrote:

>>>>>> "Terry" == Terry Branaman <tbranam at firstworld.net> writes:
> 
> Terry> If they are really worried about "potentially viral software",
> Terry> what about Visual Basic for Applications?
> 
> Maybe they are worried about potentially viral software, but clearly
> they aren't worried about *actually* viral software.  :-)
> 

While appreciating the humor of the above statement, when MS is talking
about viral software, they don't mean the stuff that deletes files, clogs
email systems, etc. They are talking about the stuff with licenses that make
the software "free". Stuff like GPL, Perl Artistic, Mozilla, etc. The
notable exception is the BSD-style license, which is acceptable to MS.

Ken

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