Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Oct 2009 19:28 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Anyone who has ever dealt with Microsoft Outlook will know the .pst file format - it's the binary, undocumented file in which all data from Outlook is stored - emails, contacts, calendar, you name it, it's in there. Microsoft has announced that it will release detailed technical documentation on the Outlook .pst data format.
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You're talking as if it's absurdly difficult to make something GPL compatible. The MS-Samba deal is a good example of a deal done right.
Microsoft have plenty of legal power and could have made a clearer agreement if they had wished. I'm not saying that they are doing this on purpose, but it does raise eyebrows when they claim that this can be used by everyone when it probably can't be used in software released under the most prevalent open source licences.
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But tell me, what is compatible with GPL and their license? just BSD and other GPL like licenses. Is hard to please them.
But the opennes of this file format is not a try to please anyone anyway.