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| From: | Hyman Rosen |
| Subject: | Re: Microsoft's Linux Kernel Code Drop Result of GPL Violation |
| Date: | Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:17:00 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) |
Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Hyman Rosen wrote:If Microsoft creates free software, free software advocates will welcome it regardless of presumed motivation.Did you ask RMS regarding that, Hyman? LOL.
RMS distrusts Microsoft with respect to .NET/Mono technology because he fears that Microsoft has not really freed that technology, but plans after a time to use software patents against free software which incorporates it. I believe he would welcome any software that Microsoft licensed using GPLv3, since that removes such danger.
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