Star Interview with Microsoft's Zac Woodall
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2001 19:44 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews Today, OSNews features an interview with Zac Woodall, software design Engineer at Office Data and Developer Services at Microsoft Corporation. Zac, who is also a frequent OSNews reader, talks about the new Office, .NET, WindowsXP, NTFS and how it compares to BFS filesystem, the GPL & open source movement and much more.
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Hmm, well I don't want to get into any trouble here, so I'll try and state this in a very PR oriented way:

Microsoft wishes to retain ALL rights to it's IP, that is every line of code it develops. Some pieces of the GPL make this hard to do while simultaneously including code destributed under the GPL in a product. The BSD licence is a little different in this regard, which may explain why some pieces of code under this licence have been considered more viable for commercial use.

That's pretty much all I can say. I wish I could talk out all the details, but doubtless some black hearted person would have my head on a chopping block for doing so.