[Gllug] My god that Mark Shuttleworth gets everywhere

[Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker]

Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> writes:

> 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.

You mean like this?

 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2009, Microsoft Corporation.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
  * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
  *
  * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT
  * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
  * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
  * more details.
  *
  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
  * this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
  * Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
  *
  * Authors:
  *   Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
  *   Hank Janssen  <hjanssen at microsoft.com>
  *
  */

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/staging/hv/hv.c

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ilmari
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 at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

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