Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software

Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by jahewson on Sunday June 14, 2015 @02:01AM (#9713887)

And what permissively licensed software did Microsoft apply this policy to, exactly? Or is it just an unfounded fear?

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by fao_ on Sunday June 14, 2015 @05:49AM (#9714353)

Read the link. It has a moderately-sized list of examples from Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish...

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by throwawaykf05 on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:30AM (#9714815)

I could not find a single example of "permissively licensed software" in there. Nor do in think one exists. Remember, this is the Microsoft that would not touch open source with a 10-foot pole.

MS did embrace and extend standards, but that is a very different thing from code.

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by anonbanker on Sunday June 14, 2015 @02:51AM (#9713982)

Kerberos. back in 2000.

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