Toward a "modern" Emacs [LWN.net]

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 6:35 UTC (Sat) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
In reply to: Toward a "modern" Emacs by marcH
Parent article: Toward a "modern" Emacs

> there's zero evidence that they care about who holds the copyright. Imagine a legal department having the time and resource to "profile" open source copyright authors.

There is a long history and plenty of evidence regarding FSF and MS legal department.

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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 17:01 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Again, thanks for correcting me... with at least one reference which should be very easy to provide considering "long" and "plenty".

To be clear: did Microsoft struggle with the FSF in the past? I bet. Did Microsoft have rules to deal with open source or the GPL? Yes of course. Still has, just like any other software company. What I assumed and meant is: Microsoft Legal never explicitly instructed its employees to deal with "FSF software" differently from any other GPL software.