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On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 19:46, Joshua Brindle wrote: |
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> Lisa Seelye wrote: |
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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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I'm quite sure Lisa meant this in jest, so lets just treat it as such. |
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Of course the issue is a serious one, but as I'm sure others would |
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agree, I cannot think of a developer who doesnt have the GPL moral value |
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ingrained within their persona, so perhaps we should just keep the point |
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Spider mentioned in our minds, and make it Business As Usual. |
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As I am sure will come out in the SCO vs Linux case, the GPL licence is |
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a valid one, and has its own legal weight as well. |
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Regards |
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John Mylchreest |
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