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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:25:53 -0500 |
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Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 18:33, Spider wrote: |
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> > Imagine the reprecautions for projects like |
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> > Samba, Gnome, KDE, and other technologies that can be seen as |
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> > "infringing" on some of MS turf. Its an easy, blunt lega weapon to |
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> > weild against whole projects, stating that all progress past this |
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> > point is only because you copied MS sources, weilding a large batch |
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> > of patents, tradesecrets and copyright infringement claims and |
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> > slamming large and wide. |
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> Let the conspiracy theories fly! |
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Ha. Ha. |
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Yes, if you start to think that "Ms released the code on purpouse", in |
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order to get a legal edge on the Open Source /Free Software projects, |
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then you can discuss conspiracy theories. However, it wouldn't be the |
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first time from MS side to go at people for tradesecrets, |
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copyright- or patent-infringement. |
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//Spider |
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Tortured users / Laughing in pain |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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