Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> EU: Microsoft's EU patent pledge 'incompatible with Open Source'
>
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>| The changes mandated by the European Commission in Microsoft's
>| interoperability licences will continue to block Open Source developers,
>| legal experts on this type of software say.
>|
>| "The agreement is going to run foul of the GPL," IT news site VNUNet quotes
>| Mark Webbink, the director of the Software Freedom Law Centre. The GNU
>| General Public Licence is one of the most used Open Source licences.
> `----
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> http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7261/469
>
> Microsoft's trick revealed.
>
> Microsoft and open-source backers: best 'frenemies' forever?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| "Microsoft appears to have accepted that Linux - on servers and devices at
>| least, if not the desktop - cannot be completely stopped," said Daniel Egger,
>| CEO of consulting firm Open Source Risk Management.
> `----
>
> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/features/index.cfm?featureID=3762&pagtype=all
>
>
Yahoo - the world is working it out on their own! I think this really
illustrates just how far we've come in terms of explaining both the
issues and the /importance/ of those issues.
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