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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To :TaCo[fungi]
So we agree that GPL code INCLUSION , NOT READING cause trouble ?
So he answer "we can?t look at it" is misleading. Upon careful reading, it almost seems devious:
"we can?t look at it" : first straight answer, flat out misleading, BUT not wrong
(it's a policy, not pretending to be the truth)
sentence about derivative work : completly true and accurate
sentence about ideas : completly true BUT completely irrelevent (GPL is NOT about ideas, patents are)
AND the final conclusion: " It seems to me " [PR speaking !] ... "should be very careful ...":
aka "you never know, you'd better stick to what you're currently doing, no one get fired ...". Microsoft PR, thank you for the advice about the GPL ...
F.U.D., and a masterpiece :-)