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Re: Does Microsoft ban its employees from reading GPL sources?

____/ Homer on Saturday 21 June 2008 17:58 : \____

> Miguel de Icaza seems to think so:
> 
> [quote]
> from what we know about Microsoft policies (right or wrong) their
> employees are barred from looking at code under certain licenses (GPL
> being one of them
> [/quote]
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-July/msg00013.html
> 
> This is insane!
 
Good find.

It does make you wonder how Microsoft feels about selected Novell engineers
seeing Microsoft's source code (confirmed by Justin Steinman).

S C O?

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