Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative

One of the attacks on the GPL I've seen is an argument that GPL-incompatible software can be made to rely (specifically) on other GPL code, but that the GPL only applies to the GPL-incompatible sub-work at link-time, to the resulting in-memory binary.

A project I've been involved in was subject to a sustained amount of pressure on this, by people funded, employed by or running a number of corporates. Ultimately this resulted in them forking (with mostly made-up/counter-factual reasons given in public for the fork) to a Linux Foundation project, interestingly.

They're now distributing code under a permissive license, that is heavily dependent on that pre-existing GPL code that they do not own (least not exclusively; some of it I own).