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"Many in our community are suspicious of the CodePlex Foundation. With its board
of directors dominated by Microsoft employees and ex-employees, plus apologist
Miguel de Icaza, there is plenty of reason to be wary of the organization. But
that doesn't prove its actions will be bad.
[...]
"This foundation is not the first Microsoft project to bear the name "CodePlex".
There is also codeplex.com, a project hosting site, whose list of allowed
licenses excludes GNU GPL version 3. Perhaps this reflects the fact that GPL
version 3 is designed to protect a program's free software status from being
subverted by Microsoft's patents through deals like the Novell-Microsoft pact.
We don't know that the CodePlex Foundation will try to discourage GPL version 3,
but it would fit Microsoft's pattern.
"The term "commercial software companies" embodies a peculiar confusion. Every
business is by definition commercial, so all software developed by a business--
whether free or proprietary--is automatically commercial software. But there is
a widespread public confusion between "commercial software" and "proprietary
software"
[...]
"Perhaps the aim of CodePlex is to suborn free software application developers
into making Windows their main platform. Many of the projects hosted now on
codeplex.com are add-ons for proprietary software.
[...]
"However good or bad the CodePlex Foundation's actions, we must not accept them
as an excuse for Microsoft's acts of aggression against our community. From its
recent attempt to sell patents to proxy trolls who could then do dirty work
against GNU/Linux to its longstanding promotion of Digital Restrictions
Management, Microsoft continues to act to harm us. We would be fools indeed to
let anything distract us from that."
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/microsoft-codeplex-foundation
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