7 wrote:
> Peter Köhlmann wrote:
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>> 7 wrote:
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> What Does MS Want? -- Brains for Sale?
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>>>> | So, I understand this to mean that Microsoft pays these researchers
>>>> | to think and study and figure out ways to innovate in search so
>>>> | Microsoft can beat Google and Yahoo. Microsoft, I would guess, gets
>>>> | rights to the IP in some fashion. No wonder it has spent a fair
>>>> | amount of effort trying to get the community to drop the GPL and
>>>> | adopt the BSD license instead.
>>>> |
>>>> | [...]
>>>> |
>>>> | Of course, in Microsoft's plan, it would be the end of competition
>>>> | against Microsoft by the GPL or by anybody in any real way, because
>>>> | one misstep, and Microsoft reserves the right to sue your pants off.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070614231022599
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>>> Micoshaft Corporation will be dead when GPL3 hits the streets.
>>
>> GPL3 will mean zilch to them
>
>
> BWAHAHAHAHHAHAAAA!!!
> You just revealed GPL3 matters to Micoshaft Corporation and to Novel a
> lot.
It matters absolutely nothing to existing contracts. Nothing at all
Apart from that, GPL3 might/will slow down linux adoption.
Which is just what MS could want. So yes, GPL3 matters maybe some to MS.
Because it will help them
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