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Re: [school-discuss] M$ SELLING Open Source.
This is no big secret; I doubt it would be violating anybody's non
disclosure agreements with microsoft.
Also, as I understand, the BSD licensing scheme fully allows for people
to profit from it in this way. So Microsoft has done no wrong with
respects to using open source code from BSD.
~m
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Tom Adelstein wrote:
That's not true. You should check to see if anyone (like me) ever did
development for them and what kind of Non Disclosure Agreements we had
to sign.
I can only wonder what would motivate someone to make such a statement
as you did.
As an example, Microsoft sold (now gives away) Microsoft Windows Services
for UNIX which is heavily based on "open source" OpenBSD code.
FTP software and TCP/IP networking code used with NT were also from open
source BSD code and actually contained the University of California
copyrights in the software.
khawar@atrc.net.pk wrote:
Did people know that M$ has been selling open source for more than a
decade ?
Jeremy C. Reed