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From: | amicus_curious |
Subject: | Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy |
Date: | Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:41:23 -0500 |
"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:Paqfl.37276$aG1.13@newsfe25.iad...
amicus_curious wrote:They have a requirement to publish the source that they copied for> free so that some router user might see it and be moved to improve it. > That is kind of a laugh, I think. They must make the source code available as required by its license so that users of the software are free to run it, examine it, change it, and share it. Whether and how users choose to avail themselves of these freedoms is not relevant to honoring the terms of the license.
It is still a joke. What firmware or software have you personally ever bothered to examine, change, or share? The whole idea is preposterous.
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