[lug] Microsoft outlaws open source with .NET

[Trever C. Trader]

You know... I joined this list to help people starting out in linux
land; Not to bicker about Microsoft and their licensing policies.  I think
that if this is the direction of where the list is going then I'm
unsubscribing.

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, D. Stimits wrote:

> "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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