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[FYI] MS to tout 'shared source philosophy', compare GNU to bubble economy
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- Subject: [FYI] MS to tout 'shared source philosophy', compare GNU to bubble economy
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:14:35 +0200
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MS to tout 'shared source philosophy', compare GNU to bubble economy
By: Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 03/05/2001 at 12:30 GMT
Microsoft's PR machine has been tipping off selected journalists
about a 'relaxation' of its closed source policy today. But Linux's
own PR rottweiler Eric Raymond appears to have gotten his retaliation
in first.
Senior VP Craig Mundie is expected to tell New York University Stern
School of Business today that Microsoft will extend the availability
of parts of the code in what the FT says will be called a 'shared
source philosophy'. The New York Times interprets the speech as an
assault on software libre itself. Eric Raymond caught wind of a
comparison Mundie would make between dot.com's giving away loss-
leader items and the GNU General Public License.
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