Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2001 19:44 UTC
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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...before speaking about GPL.
GPL is a licence about code source and copyright, not about ideas.
Patents are about ideas, and not seeing any code source is no protection against
patents so he should worry about software patents restricting he coding abilities not GPL. That is of course if Microsoft did not have enough "defensive" patents by itself ...
Ignorance of FUD ?
You choose, I myself cannot believe such a "mistake" could slip through Microsoft PR, so it must have been pushed forward !
Anybody can read as much GPL code as he/she wants. As long as YOU write your own dawn code, you do have to GPL anything !
You can always choose the licence of YOUR code.