[Scottish] BCS debriefing

[scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk]

> And yes, I was expecting a bit of a fiery debate, but instead they both ended 
> up agreeing, and the vote was unanimous. Mark (Microsoft) appeared to put 
> forward that Microsoft no longer despises open source, but reckons that it 
> can co-exist

Microsoft's view does seem to have been changed.

Compare:
"The way the [GPL] license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source ... Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO - June 2001
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19396.html

with

"The GPL utility source code for Services for UNIX 3.0 contains the base utilities diff, sdiff, bc, dc, cpio, gzip, gunzip, gawk, patch, csplit, nl, strings, rpm, and SDK utilities/libraries ld.so, gcc, gdb, g++, g77, gasp, objcopy, ld, as, ar, nm, size, strip, ci, co, diff3 rcs, rlog, and ident." - May 2002
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/howtobuy/default.asp

Hope this is of interest,
Steven Murdoch.