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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 20:29 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> ____/ Andrew Halliwell on Tuesday 04 August 2009 18:40 : \____
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>>> 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.
> 
> Most of them are. Some are even taken to court and settle out of court.
> Didn't go that far with microsoft did it?

OJ wasn't sent to prison, either. [until very recently, for other reasons]

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