New Microsoft “Open Source” Licenses Reveal a Company on the Defensive

“PJ of Groklaw believes Microsoft is (as usual) up to no good by
pushing two licenses for OSI approval. I don’t trust Microsoft any
more than she does, but I don’t share her seeming paranoia that
every move the company makes is a deviously cunning ploy to destroy
its enemies. Many of its recent moves, I believe, are death throes,
nothing more than a pathetic and desperate attempt to simply
survive.

“What I think is behind Microsoft’s current desperation is the
release of the GNU General Public License version 3. Mind you,
GPLv3 is the most discussed and collaboratively developed software
license in history. It has an impeccable set of guiding principles,
accommodation of the widest variety of views across the spectrum
and (not least) watertight legalese that gives it teeth in a court
of law…”

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