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It's obvious what's wrong

Posted Oct 19, 2005 23:31 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: FSFE on the new "shared source" licenses by xtifr
Parent article: FSFE on the new "shared source" licenses

these bad licenses have been written by Evil People.

Seriously: having decried the GPL as Evil, Communist, and Threatening Corporate America, releasing software under the GPL would be too much hypocrisy even for M$.

That being said, let's see what they actually release under these licenses, if anything. I'm not exactly holding my breath.

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Too much hypocrisy? For Microsoft?

Posted Oct 20, 2005 2:06 UTC (Thu) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

Are you sure that's possible? (-:

It's obvious what's wrong

Posted Oct 20, 2005 3:07 UTC (Thu) by hbo (guest, #13692) [Link]

No, creating their own GPL-like license is the hypocritical act. It's hypocritical because they are doing one thing - creating a GPL-like license - and saying another - equating the GPL with communism. Adopting the GPL would be admitting rhetorical defeat and changing position, but their words and deeds would have to align in that case.

Wouldn't they? 8)