[ Thanks to Bruce
Perens for this link. ]
“One of our readers has caught Microsoft in a trivial, easily
remedied, GPL violation, which is detailed below. Microsoft has
been politely asked to fix the problem, and no doubt they will if
and when the request gets to the right person (which is the most
difficult thing about doing this with a large company).”
“Why do companies get involved in trivial GPL violations?
Because the company picks up Free Software as part of one of their
products without maintaining their committment to do the simple,
easy, inexpensive things that are required to comply with the Free
Software license. Folks, if you can’t comply with the license,
find other software, please….”
“A few months ago Microsoft purchased a company, Softway
Systems, that provides a UNIX environment on Windows. It appeared
on Slashdot, with discussion as you might expect. The product is
called Microsoft Interix. It has now been re-packaged and tweaked
by Microsoft and I have used it. You can find info on this product
from MS and the old Interix site….”