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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Thursday 26 Nov 2009 23:57 : \____
> 7 pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft fails to open source Windows 7 USB tool
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | A posting on Microsoft's Port 25 blog last
>>> | week revealed that the company had failed
>>> | to release the code of the Windows 7
>>> | USB/DVD Download Tool. Microsoft had
>>> | admitted that the tool contained code from
>>> | a GPL licensed application, ImageMaster,
>>> | which was hosted on Microsoft's CodePlex
>>> | project hosting site. Peter Galli,
>>> | Microsoft's Open Source Community Manager,
>>> | said "While we worked extremely hard to
>>> | try and get the code ready for release by
>>> | today, we still need to test and localise
>>> | it". The plan is now to release the code
>>> | "in the next few weeks".
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-fails-to-open-source-Windows-7-USB-tool-867103.html
>>
>> In short, micoshaft has added a lot of snooping tools to the
>> GPL'd code and now they can't release it until
>> code is completely washed and sent through several rinse cycles.
>
> "Code laundering", eh? :-D
Samba was a victim of some. Listen to this new show:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2009/nov/19/0x1B/
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