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.
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| 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.
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