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The ‘Cost’ of GPLv3 is the Loss of All Threats to Free Software

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Roy Schestowitz
Jul 23, 2007

“I’ve seen several business analysts (not Free/Open
software people) who say that Microsoft has NEVER in it’s
corporate history not betrayed anyone who signed an agreement with
them. IBM, Digital Research, the list is long. The behavior is
remarkably consistent over decades. It was never a question of
anything but time. Novel, Xandros, Linspire. Now it looks like the
betrayal has already started. Hope these folks have lots of band
aids.”

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