[lug] Microsoft outlaws open source with .NET

[John Starkey]

Yeah, really. Let's prevent any M$ user from becoming a Linux user and we
won't have to deal with M$ licensing issues.

John

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Trever C. Trader wrote:

> 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.
>
> > > 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.