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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Ok, I know it's feeding the FUD, BUT....
*PLEASE* read the faq's before spouting off about what the GPL allows and disallows.(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html).
I'd like to think that the FSF Attorney's know the GPL better than M$'s corporate shills.
My other question...how does he know how well WINE works (and how it handles the situations he lists), unless of course he actually looked at WINE and it's codebase....
Also...Microsoft has bought companies in the past that (ala Interix) that use GPL'd software, so the comment about not looking at GPL'd code doesn't hold up from that standpoint either.
For a bit more info on what GPL software Microsoft uses, the MS guy should talk to Microsoft's OSS Working group (or contact jgemmell, jehkim, or mernst in the Research group, as they all work with GPL'd software).
In addition, Microsoft used to host (and use) the Fnord! Web server on their research webserver (it's since been taken down), so they can't claim they have never used (or in thier own words been "Contaminated" by) the GPL.
sigh...