[Wolves] Microsofts sudden release of GPL code

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Thu Jul 23 12:14:32 UTC 2009


2009/7/23 Antonio Roberts <antonio at hellocatfood.com>:
> I think it's their sudden change of heart that has gotten everyone
> suspicious. There are companies that are built around or heavily
> support linux and open source and even when one of them shows any
> signs of teaming up with MS (e.g. Novell) people get suspicious. So, a
> sudden change of heart form MS is a bit unnerving.
>

There was no change of heart at all. They _had_ to release the code
because they were breaking the GPL until they did.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/23/microsoft_hyperv_gpl_violation/

Cheers,
Al.



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