[Gllug] My god that Mark Shuttleworth gets everywhere

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Tue Jul 12 10:03:23 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 10:41 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> Doesn't GPL 3 go on about patent trolls and stop useage by them.
> How many (significant) projects are under GPL 3 -- I know that the kernel isn't.

Microsoft will never touch anything under GPL 3.

A large part of my reason for believing MS will never release a Linux
based OS is that I think they are also determined never to release
anything which is subject to any version of the FSF GPL because it's
antithetical to their own corporate ethos.


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