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Should Microsoft Really Bundle Open Source Software?
Sep 5, 2007, 01 :30 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (3804 reads)

"I recently wrote about Microsoft's 'annoying' tendency to duplicate the efforts of perfectly capable Open Source Software already in existence. In the post, he references this post by Scott Bellware which lists several cases in which Microsoft duplicated the efforts of OSS software.

"Ayende is not convinced by the fear factor argument around issues of software pedigree, patents, and legal challenges. Jon Galloway wrote about this argument a while ago in his post Why Microsoft can't ship open source code..."

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MS will not do anything that threatens t ...   Seems the Author forgets   
paul
Sep 5, 2007, 02:19:46
 
  > The only way Microsoft wwould ship a ...   Re: Seems the Author forgets   
Nalle Berg
Sep 5, 2007, 06:48:24
 
... that it wasn't all that long ago ...   Isn't it funny ...   
The Man Who Japed
Sep 5, 2007, 17:48:02
 
Take a peep at the new Silverlight relea ...   Silverlight for Linux   
smikey
Sep 10, 2007, 21:38:09
 
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