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Re: [school-discuss] M$ SELLING Open Source.

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Subject: Re: [school-discuss] M$ SELLING Open Source.
From: Chris Cormack <chris@katipo.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:18:05 +1300
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:12:02PM -0500, Maureen E. Duffy said:
> 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.
> 
Selling software based on Open Source software is not the same as selling
Open Source software.
And I imagine everyone involved in this group understands that :)

So its probably time to stop feeding the troll.

Chris

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