Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jul 2007 11:05 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution. Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well as those with Linux rivals Xandros and Linspire, were unaffected by the release June 29 of GPLv3 by the Free Software Foundation.
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2006-04-21
Your statements are so wrong it's almost as if you were purposely trying to spread the FUD. Microsoft embraced open source long before they opened their labs...and only for what they can get out of it. They have released source code of stuff like FoxPro which they don't want to support anymore. They have an open source lab at their headquarters where pay lip service to open source. They "opened" their labs to the open source community but the community saw through their tactics. And now for some odd reason you think they should be believed. Don't try to come here and tell us that Microsoft are the canine's testicles when they have done everything possible to screw the open source community (or have you forgotten their patent (pun intended) linux-violates-patents-and-we're-not-going-to-tell-you-
what-they-are-even-although-patents-are-by-definition-
publicly-available bullshit already?) Perhaps it's Microsoft that needs to change and not open source.