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

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

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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