Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri...
by kstrauser on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:12AM
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The following is pure conjecture with zero evidence:
I think that’s on purpose, not to “steal” code from GPL’ed softwares’ authors, but to get GPL’ed code into commercial projects. Then Microsoft can say “oops, we were right all along! The GPL is so dangerously viral that you can’t even host your software on the same server!”
I know that sounds stupid, unless you were there for the Halloween Documents. After all these years, it seems to me that Microsoft hasn’t done the 180 they portray.
I think that’s on purpose, not to “steal” code from GPL’ed softwares’ authors, but to get GPL’ed code into commercial projects. Then Microsoft can say “oops, we were right all along! The GPL is so dangerously viral that you can’t even host your software on the same server!”
I know that sounds stupid, unless you were there for the Halloween Documents. After all these years, it seems to me that Microsoft hasn’t done the 180 they portray.