On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 19:46, Joshua Brindle wrote:
> Lisa Seelye wrote:
> > Let the conspiracy theories fly!

> This was really inappropriate lisa, there is nothing funny nor 
> delusional about the situation. MS will seriously defend their trade 
> secrets and take whatever action necessary to protect the code. Since 
> projects like Samba, Gnome, KDE, etc have many overlapping components 
> with Windows it could be devestating to those projects AND the GPL if 
> they are found to have copied code from MS. We may not have many 
> windows-like components but we do maintain ties with KDE, etc.
> 
> Spider is absolutely right, if you value the GPL and Gentoo you won't 
> even think about the MS code, just forget about it and go on with your work.

I'm quite sure Lisa meant this in jest, so lets just treat it as such.
Of course the issue is a serious one, but as I'm sure others would
agree, I cannot think of a developer who doesnt have the GPL moral value
ingrained within their persona, so perhaps we should just keep the point
Spider mentioned in our minds, and make it Business As Usual.

As I am sure will come out in the SCO vs Linux case, the GPL licence is
a valid one, and has its own legal weight as well.

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John Mylchreest

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