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A firewall for Microsoft?A firewall for Microsoft?Posted Apr 13, 2012 19:32 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740)Parent article: Paoli: Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities
Simon Phipps tries to answer the "Why?" question:
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/04/why-m... His speculation that this is likely some kind of firewall for Microsoft against having to abide by any free software licenses and having to play fair with Patents in a share-and-share-alike manner might be what this is really about.
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A firewall for Microsoft? Posted Apr 13, 2012 19:39 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
Creating a corporate firewall for GPL compliance is probably an underlying reason but this might also greatly reduce the internal barriers for MS to participate in open source projects which is probably a good thing in general.
A firewall for Microsoft? Posted Apr 13, 2012 21:13 UTC (Fri) by webmink (guest, #47180) [Link]
I think those are actually the same thing seen from different directions.
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