GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed?
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| Several of the packages I installed included GPL and LGPL software without
| any mention of the GPL, much less source code. For example, DVD Photo
| Slideshow (www.dvd-photo-slideshow.com) included mkisofs, cdrdao, dvdauthor,
| spumux, id3lib, lame, mpeg2enc, and mplex (all of which are GPL or LGPL). The
| company tried to hide this by wrapping them all in DLLs.
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http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/30/1221225
Microsoft Embraces Machinima ... and Maybe the GPL?
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| To those of us who are licensing lawyers, that's an interesting development,
| as there are those who have questioned the GPL to the extent it's not a
| contract. Apparently Microsoft agrees with the FSF that unilateral
| permissions "work" in the world of IP licensing.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005419.php
What Microsoft can and cannot do
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| While I disagree with the FSF that the term intellectual property is “a
| propaganda term designed to confuse patent law with copyright and other
| unrelated laws, and to muddy the different issues they raise,” I do agree
| that Microsoft must abide by the terms and conditions of the GPL, whether
| version 2 or 3, whichever is applicable, which may emerge as a key question.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/08/29/what-microsoft-can-and-cannot-do/
Look at this letter where Sony calling Windows an "open platform". Utterly
stupid.
Sony Abandons Proprietary Platform for Walkman Digital Devices
http://prbrandingzone.blogspot.com/2007/08/sony-abandons-propietary-platform-for.html
Related:
Ten Tech Blunders: Whoops, We Stepped in It!
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| In a horrible case of foot-in-mouth that revealed deep fear behind
| a thin mask of disdain, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer compared Linux
| to cancer. Ouch!
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/11070_3679516_1
Microsoft denies Novell deal is breach of 'cancer' (GPL)
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| Microsoft Corp has denied that its patent deal with Novell Inc is in
| breach of the 'cancer' (GNU General Public License) or will automatically
| spread Microsoft's FUD (patent protection) to other Linux distributions.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B8218C15-4A5C-448D-A537-C5DBC4F2B38A
http://tinyurl.com/y2royp
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| "Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the
| company completely lost its mind?
|
| Once upon a time, Microsoft executives confined
| their criticism of Linux and free software to old-fashioned FUD
| -- fear, uncertainty and doubt. Linux wasn't good enough for
| enterprise-class systems, they declared. You couldn't get
| quality support, and it was too hard and clunky for average users.
|
| Fair enough. But now, judging by comments made Wednesday by
| Microsoft's operating systems chief Jim Allchin (and reported
| by Bloomberg News), it turns out that free and open-source
| software is something far worse than anyone could possibly have
| imagined. It is nothing less than a threat to the American
| way of life! "
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http://archive.salon.com/tech/log/2001/02/15/unamerican/index.html
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