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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>It is obvious that he has never read the GPL, as it has specific provisions
>that allow the owner of the IP to protect themselves. Learn about something
>before you spout off about it.
>> Hmm, not according to our lawyers. Yours must be better than ours though.
That's not your lawyers talking, it's your spin doctors. Your employer is (among other things) trying to get people to either not write free software or use a license such as the BSD license that will allow your employer to use the code. There is nothing contemplative or statesmanlike in this. This is a PR war with specific objectives directly related to money and power.
For an interesting discussion of this article from a GPL oriented crowd, see:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-11-20-010-20-IN-MS