MS calls open source potentially viral

[daveleau]

It is causing CRITICISM folks, not the rare disease known as critism. Sorry for not checking my spelling better Scott.

Dave

[CMonster]

I can see why Linux has Microsoft upset - I just installed SuSE Linux 7.2 Personal edition which I bought from Fry's last Sunday for $19.95 -and it is awesome!


That's right, a boxed operating system with tons of applications -they didn't skimp on this personal edition, and basic manuals are included for just $19.95


-today, July 3rd, is the last day- then it goes back up to $29-


This is really polished Linux folks, and nothing seems to be broken like in Mandrake 8 (sorry Mandrake).

[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 07-03-2001).]

[doggabone]

I noticed that the article says that the FreeBSD license is exempt from the restriction list - could that be becaue MS still uses it for Hotmail and doesn't want to restrict itself?

And - I don't know much about the GPL licensing models - but does running on the Linux OS automatically mean that all your code is open source? I would hope (and probably be disappointed, I know > ) that, while it is legal to restrict how I may license software written using "your" tools, that "you" can't restrict what software I choose to use with it!!

I thought that the quote "While software companies can put whatever restrictions they choose into a software license, 'this isn't just another software company. This is Microsoft' ... " was interesting and spot-on. (If that's accurate, I s'pose it answers my question of the above paragraph .) One wonders if anyone @ MS actually read the apellate court findings - or just the newspaper headlines that declared MS the total victor ...

Thanks for the tip-off SysOpt folx

[TCWolffe]

They allow FreeBSD, yes, because they use it. They use it, because the open source model is a bit different.....under GPL products like linux, when you add code, you share it with everyone else, and thus, everyone benefits......with products like BSD, you can make changes, and you can choose whether you want to share or not.....so of course, people will share, MS will absorb, MS will add to the code and say.....nope, not sharing this stuff, SUCKERS!!!

it's sad.....