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Lisa Seelye 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 weild |
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>>against whole projects, stating that all progress past this point is |
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>>only because you copied MS sources, weilding a large batch of patents, |
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>>tradesecrets and copyright infringement claims and slamming large and |
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>>wide. |
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> Let the conspiracy theories fly! |
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This was really inappropriate lisa, there is nothing funny nor |
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delusional about the situation. MS will seriously defend their trade |
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secrets and take whatever action necessary to protect the code. Since |
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projects like Samba, Gnome, KDE, etc have many overlapping components |
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with Windows it could be devestating to those projects AND the GPL if |
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they are found to have copied code from MS. We may not have many |
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windows-like components but we do maintain ties with KDE, etc. |
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Spider is absolutely right, if you value the GPL and Gentoo you won't |
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even think about the MS code, just forget about it and go on with your work. |
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Joshua Brindle |
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