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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:25:53 -0500
Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 18:33, Spider wrote:
> >  Imagine the reprecautions for projects like
> > Samba, Gnome, KDE, and other technologies that can be seen as
> > "infringing" on some of MS turf. Its an easy, blunt lega weapon to
> > weild against whole projects, stating that all progress past this
> > point is only because you copied MS sources, weilding a large batch
> > of patents, tradesecrets and copyright infringement claims and
> > slamming large and wide.


> Let the conspiracy theories fly!

Ha. Ha.

Yes, if you start to think that "Ms released the code on purpouse", in
order to get a legal edge on the Open Source /Free Software projects,
then you can discuss conspiracy theories. However, it wouldn't be the
first time from MS side to go at people for tradesecrets,
copyright- or patent-infringement. 

//Spider

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