[Gllug] [Announcement] LinuxExpo'03

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

On Sun, 28 Sep 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!
Can you give as more information about it ? urls ?

<private opinion/>It is quite good example of how States are "corrupted". 
I hope SCOs case won't take that long :-)


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GJ


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