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  • Microsoft drops the ball on its open license promise

    Posted on November 27, 2009 at 10:11 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    This burns me.

    Almost two weeks ago I talked about the way Microsoft stole open source software, repackaged it, and re-released it in a way that violates the original licensing agreement. Microsoft got caught red-handed and promised to release the offending offensive program as open source.

    Two weeks later, it’s become apparent that Microsoft has no intention at all of releasing the program as open source. Instead, it appears as if Microsoft is in the middle of re-writing the program, and the Softies now promise that, at some undefined point in the future, they will release the modified version of the program as open source.

    What a crock. As I said two weeks ago, can you imagine what would’ve happened if, say, Apple had stolen a program from Microsoft and released it in one of their own products?

    I don’t know how they get away with it. Oh, wait a minute, yes I do. The guys who got ripped off don’t have armies of lawyers. Ay, there’s the rub.

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