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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by Tmmrn on Thursday February 06, 2014 @03:43AM (#7189344)
> Microsoft could come up with their own license that was "open source" but not "free software"

The important question then would be: Could you legally port directx to *nix from this? If not, then what'd be the point?

Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by cookiecaper on Thursday February 06, 2014 @07:23PM (#7193917)
Yes, and you could distribute it, as long as you had a checkbox prior to the download that said, "I assert I am a Windows license holder and entitled to utilize derivatives of its code", or a banner that printed a similar message after installation, instructing you to uninstall if you aren't a license holder.