Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: pac4854
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00

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In article <m34s9i43ew.fsf@thyme.td.micromuse.co.uk>,
  "Tim Haynes" <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
> Would the open-source community be interested in hacking Windoze code,
> should (for example) IE5 be open-sourced?

I think the open-source community would be V_E_R_Y interested in seeing
how much of their GPL code is in the MSWindows products.  Could explain
why Mr. Gates promised to publish the Windows source last month followed
by the immeditate retraction by the MSFT marketing machine claiming he
said no such thing.

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