Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:32:09 -0700 From: Michael VanLoon <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM> To: 'Kal Torak' <kaltorak@quake.com.au>, "Sergey N. Voronkov" <serg@tmn.ru> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Microsoft uses FreeBSD Message-ID: <36F7B20351634E4FBFFE6C6A216B30D54C4D@ecx1.edifecs.com>
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Microsoft is a very big company, and management is largely bottom-up rather than top-down. Microsoft acquired Interix (a company that made a product previously known as OpenNT which replaced the Posix subsystem with a real Unix subsystem -- I used it with great success in the past for a more Unix-like environment on NT). With Interix they of course had to continue using their development environment for the Unix sub-environment, since that was how it was developed, and MSVC doesn't address that niche. So although the official company line is "GPL is evil; Linux is evil" all the little fiefdoms will do their own thing until Bill explicitly tells them otherwise. In the case of Interix, it would be hard to do it any other way unless the MSVC guys want to develop compiler tools for the Unix subsystem stuff. Just FWIW... > From: Kal Torak [mailto:kaltorak@quake.com.au] > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:48 AM > > "Sergey N. Voronkov" wrote: > > > > First at all, if the source is GPLed then it is Open Source. But > > Open Source isn't GPL always! (See /COPYRIGHT on FreeBSD as > an example). > > > > Second one - sources of the GPLed utilities are available from > > Microsoft (see the bottom of the referenced page). So GPL terms > > of use aren't broken. > > > > So, if you don't like Microsoft (as I'm), be free to use any > > other software, but do not say they breaks any restricted licenses > > when they aren't. > > I dont think he is talking about them breaking any laws, but > M$ have this big thing about saying "open source is bad mkay"... > > Rather hypocritical of them to use said software them selfs... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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