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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Microsoft doesn't look at GPLed code?
by whoknows on Tue 20th Nov 2001 15:23 UTC

That's the official policy but I know for a fact that Microsoft programmers do look at GPLed software. It is also true that Microsoft has hired programmers whos only practical experience is in Linux kernel hacking. I wonder why?