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p2pnet.net — If Bill and the Boyz get their way, free software won't be free for very much longer.

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  • schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I don't know you know this, John, but they have been using lobbying arms to create GPLv3 FUD as well. They still do this ( http://boycottnovell.com/2007/04/06/act-on-gplv3/ ) and Mary Jo Foley says that GPLv3 is infact their worst nightmare. Here is the latest:

    GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft's latest Linux attack campaign

    ,----[ Quote ]
    | What's got Microsoft so spoooked? As the Fortune article noted, the GPL
    | v3's provisions regarding the Microsoft-Novell deal suggest that
    | Microsoft itself could be considered a "Linux distributor," and thus
    | beholden to the GPL v3 terms.
    `----

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=437

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