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More open source spin from Microsoft
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| But the TCP/IP stack will not be open-
| sourced - because, as Peter Galli, who
| runs Port 25, Microsoft's means of
| communicating with open source, says ,
| "the TCP/IP stack is third party software
| that Microsoft licenses from EBSNet, so we
| do not have the rights to distribute that
| source code.
|
| "If someone needs to access the source
| code for the TCP/IP stack, they can
| contact EBSNet directly."
|
| What use is a framework that caters to
| internet-connected devices without a
| TCP/IP stack?
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29422/1090/
Convenient Fictions
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| Itâs a convenient fiction that a vocal
| minority within the open-source community
| believes Microsoft is the source of all
| evil in the technology world.
|
| For âsuch peopleâ, it is far easier to
| denounce an imaginary one-dimensional
| straw man directing irrational âhateâ
| towards a single entity than a principled
| stand against anti-freedom activities, no
| matter the source.
|
| The fact of the matter, as a moment of
| honest research will show, is that the
| âvocal minorityâ has something to say
| about Microsoft, Apple, Intel, the MPAA,
| the RIAA, and many other entities â large
| and small â that engage in anti-user,
| anti-Freedom activites.
|
| [...]
|
| However, it makes no more sense to take
| this single incident and use it as
| exculpatory evidence than it would to use
| this single incident as damming evidence.
| Yet, by connecting this single âerrorâ to
| the hateful straw man, that is exactly
| what âsuch peopleâ are attempting â
| avoiding any mention of over a decade of
| history of clearly-not-mistake hostile and
| illegal actions.
|
| Such dishonest apologetics do no one a
| favor. They do not cast Microsoft in a
| more favorable light. They do not
| strengthen the credibility of the
| apologist. And they do not convert the
| critic.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/11/convenient-fictions/
Related:
Novell's "Mixed Source" Announcement
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| This whole Novell-Microsoft saga to me was kind of like a hostile
| takeover of GPL code, or an attempt at it, to neuter it so as to
| make that code go more proprietary whether it wants to or not.
| Folks who like the proprietary ways better and didn't much like
| the GPL, or don't understand its value, thought the license
| doesn't mean what it says or that they could get cute with it
| and make oodles and boodles of money by selling code that
| belongs to other people in ways those authors told them in
| their license they don't like.
|
| Well, the GPL does mean what it says. And if you steal the
| Golden Egg and in so doing kill the Golden Goose that laid
| it, what have you accomplished? The development method that
| makes the code so much better is the Golden Goose, and the
| GPL is central to the health of that Goose. I suppose that
| is why Microsoft wants to get it neutered or eaten for
| dinner, but why would anyone else help them, particularly
| someone selling or wanting to buy Linux? You cut off your
| own future, or make it subject to Microsoft's whims.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070606120901152
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