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Has Microsoft violated the GPL?

Publication:iTWireDate:May 21 2007
Reporter:Sam Varghese

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It would be rather funny if, after all the brouhaha Microsoft has made recently about patent violations, the company is found to be violating the one thing which it passionately hates - the existing General Public Licence.

Yet that is not a far-fetched conclusion - not after the deal that Dell cut with Microsoft recently. You see, as a result of striking this deal, Microsoft has effectively become a Linux distributor. It gets SUSE Linux licences from Novell and distributes them to Dell.




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