Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Tue 17th Jun 2003 19:25 UTC
Everyone knows what Microsoft does by now. What some people do not know is that Microsoft releases a system integration software named Windows services for UNIX. 
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You guys know beleive it or not Microsoft has one mission and one mission only. That is to make money and they will go about it the easiest way possible and if that includes including works that other people have put out on the internet and put out there for free, they will use it. Because it saves them time and licencing costs. That is one of the big problems with GPL'ed software there is no way to get money for it if a huge company like Microsoft starts using it and selling the software that is was bundled with for a huge profit.
This is one of the big problems with GPL, it's free for everybody to use so you can restrict somebody if they are going to use the software and make a bundle of money selling it. Personally I beleive that once you make a peice of software GPL you have given up all rights to bitch about who uses the software and for what purposes they use it, because it no longer belongs to you, it belongs to the OSS community.