[lug] Microsoft outlaws open source with .NET

[D. Stimits]

"Trever C. Trader" wrote:
> 
> I think that y'all are getting way too carried away with this
> subject.  What does Bill Gates and Microsoft have to do with linux?  What
> programs are they writing for Linux?

Probably because the new .NET strategy from Microsoft includes a license
banning Linux. Think of it as a new interoperability bug/virus. The
original post mentions this URL as a citation:
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2781638,00.html

While the subject is about a comparison of the GNU license with a virus,
embedding itself in other code that uses it, MS has specifically named
Linux, as a viral form of code, in a way might make it legally
acceptable to brand Linux as viral (not just the GNU license, as MS has
written it). Or so I interpret it.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, bill ehlert wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Deva Samartha <blug-receive at mtbwr.net> wrote:
> > > Microsoft associates the terms "viral" and
> > > "virus" with GPL-ed software.
> > > This is a clever move to discredit open
> > > software.
> >
> > **  for some reason it makes me think
> >     of the terms
> >
> >            the "big lie"
> >
> >               and
> >
> >            "adolph hitler"
> >
> >
> >  <chop>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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