[Gllug] [Announcement] LinuxExpo'03

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Sun Sep 28 22:29:16 UTC 2003


Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 10:31 pm, Stephen Harker wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Or: when will M$ acknowledge and pay for the code they lifted out of BSD
>>>for their NT products?
>>
>>They don't have to. Its released under the BSD licence. :-/
> 
> 
> Actually, they do - they stole the code long before it was freely licenced!
> M$ have a long history of stealing that which they can't buy.  Apparently 
> Xerox have a "prior art" claim against M$ that has been in court for almost 
> 15 years!

Oh. Well they should then. Sorry. Back in my shell now :-)
SteveH


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