Star Interview with Microsoft's Zac Woodall
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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ample evidence MS *is* looking at GPLed code
by Bastiaan on Tue 20th Nov 2001 20:15 UTC

I must say that I'm really sorry for this Zac dude that he has to resort to lying about M$ GPL usage to keep his employer happy.

There's ample evidence that M$ employees look at GPL code, and they are in their full right to do so. One example: the IPv6 group of Miscrosoft Research based their experimental IPv6 HTTP server on the GPLed 'Fnord!' server. And in full compliance they released their modifications under the GPL as. Unfortenately, after an article on Slashdot about, the PR department forced them to remove code from their site. Luckily, the code was already out on the net and now has found a new home at SourceForge: http://sf.net/projects/msfnord.