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[FYI] MS to tout 'shared source philosophy', compare GNU to bubble economy



http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18716.html

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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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