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MS: Dancing as fast as it can to try to get away from GPLv3

Publication:GroklawDate:Jul 07 2007
Reporter:Pamela Jones

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Want to laugh? Microsoft Says It Is Not Bound by GPLv3" -- they think they can so declare, like an emperor, and it becomes fiat. It's not so easy. I gather Microsoft's lawyers have begun to discern the GPL pickle they are in. In any case it won't be providing any support or updates or anything at all in connection with those toxic (to them) vouchers it distributed as part of the Novell deal. What a surprise. Novell, still the Microsoft handmaiden, will pick up Microsoft's slack:


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