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Re: Where are Microsoft's 20,000 lines of "cancer"?

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____/ Andrew Halliwell on Tuesday 04 August 2009 18:40 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> ____/ Andrew Halliwell on Tuesday 04 August 2009 11:15 : \____
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>>> Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> That's OK though ... it's six thousand fewer lines for me to remove.
>>>  
>>> What's to remove? It's GPL.
>>> OK, microsoft are in general a complete and utter bunch of wankers, but
>>> when they DO do something right it should be applauded.
>> 
>> It's for Windows. They violated the GPL.
> 
> They got called on it and did the right thing in the end.
> Not as if they're the first and they won't be the last.

It took them 5 months. See what Groklaw said. They were pushed into it.

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