| Bill Jonas on Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:00:12 +0200 |
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On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:00:00PM -0400, LeRoy Cressy wrote: > It just seems to me that the lawyers at Microsoft are doing everything > in their power to destroy the popularity of Linux and BSD. Not to mention that some of the latest "features" of the SMB protocol (in WindowsXP) are patented, and the licensing agreement for downloading the specification says that you agree not to use any of the knowledge gained from the document in the implementation of any software with an "IPR-impairing" (intellectual-property-rights-impairing, ie, GPL, which is named specifically) license. This wouldn't be so problematic, since the protocol was originally reverse-engineered, but the software patents are the tricky bit. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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