[dundee] [Fwd: Microsoft Inspiration Tour - Tuesday 22nd January 2008 - at Abertay !]

[Andrew Clayton]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:27:03 +0000, gordon dunlop wrote:

> Go along if you want to, even to get a laugh, but great new
> technologies! and Innovation! Why are Microsoft planning their new
> operating system, Win 7, on the Linux model: small kernel; modular
> systems? Why did they model Explorer 7 on Firefox with the tabbed
> browsing? Why is their new hypervisor with Windows server rumoured to
> be based on Xen? Yes they are using open source within their code,
> that is why they have been shouting about patents and trying to make
> agreements with Linux distributions.  Not because we have anything of
> theirs but they have got ours, they can do so legally as long as they
> make the code available, but to publicly admit to using open source

Yeah, they've been using BSD code for some time, e.g their
networking stack and more recently kerberos which they mangled up with
something to create Active Directory.

In short for Microsoft, BSD = Good (Take, Take, Take). GPL = BAD (Uh
oh, we have to open source Windows!)


Andrew