I like it ... I don't like it. Yes, MS has put it's
neck on the block, sort of, by opeing source code.
And, they probably will pursue any and all legal means
to ( and illegal means ) discourge anyone from
"copying" that source or developing direvative works.
But, at least in this country, a MS would have to get
my the "burden of proof" issue. ie. if I looks at 100
pieces of source code and develop a piece of software
based on industry norms it would be extremely
difficult to say that I copied MS source code. Then
again Gates has what, at least 45 billion to hire
lawyers ... oops.
--- robin <robin@roblimo.com> wrote:
>
> > MS is on the defensive, but unfortunately, they
> have come up with an
> > EXTREMELY effective counter-attack. LKML folks
> know better than to ever
> > look at any code that could even be vaguely
> construed as MS-origin for
> > precisely this reason.
>
> I'll add a "yes and no" to this.
>
> There is also an advantage to having someone check
> the open source code
> against the pseudo-opened proprietary stuff to make
> sure there are no
> inadvertant similarities.
>
> We are talking about millions of line of code here.
> Chances are, some
> few lines are going to be identical or nearly so, if
> only because
> someone at Microsoft and somone working on the Linux
> kernel learned from
> the same teacher and have a similar style.
>
> - Robin
>
>
>
>
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