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MS 'Software Choice' scheme a clever fraud (Register)
Bruce Perens wrote this
article about Microsoft's 'Software Choice' scheme. "Microsoft
has responded with a clever Software Choice campaign that, read quickly,
appears to fight discrimination and call for choice, while actually
promoting policies that would lock out Free Software. For example, it
promotes the embedding of royalty-bearing software patents into "open"
standards. Of course Free Software producers don't charge copyright
royalty fees, and thus can't afford to pay for patent royalties, so they
would not be able to implement any standard that contains royalty-bearing
patents."
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