Originally posted by [HDS]Hybrid
Hey, why do they have to reveal code? Is it because they used Linux network code? Because, Linux as open source forbids any company to SELL linux code, and microsoft is doint that with this network code, and the only prove that microsoft used this linux code is if you look in the source.
It's this that makes then having to show the code, right? I hope so at least, I'd love to see M$ having to stop selling WinXP
Have you paid any attention at all? Linux networking code? Where the hell did you get that? MS uses their own stacks, and always has. They totally violate half the RFC's out there.
Read the GPL. The read a MS EULA. You've obviously read neither.
Linux CAN be sold, nothing forbids it. However, the source must be made freely available. So companies like RedHat make their source available for download, as well as selling boxed product.
Read the dispute, and then PAY ATTENTION.
The reason MS has to reveal it's source to specific state representatives, NOT to the general public is to prove that it's not lying about IE being too closely tied to the OS to unbundle.
How difficult a concept is this?
