Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: phil hunt
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:00

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On 05 Apr 2000 17:14:48 +0100 (BST), 
David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
>>But who is there to fight for the open-source model when its licenses are
>>violated? 
>
>Let us imagine that there is some GPLed code in Windoze. That would
>require all of Windoze to be made available under the GPL, which would be
>very amusing for IBM, Sun, Corel, DEC/Compaq, Apple, the FSF,
>AOL/Netscape/Time Warner/Genom Corporation, etc. I suspect there
>would be no shortage of lawyer money to fight that one with...

I suspect that there is little or no GPL'ed code in Windows or 
MS Office, because of this potential threat.

If MS did have such GPL'ed code, some of their employees would know 
about it. Employees from time to time leave and get new employers. What
would stop a former MS employee blowing the whistle?


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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (phil hunt)
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/06
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