Open source developers and users have always been a sceptical group, but their opinions can shift for example, their loathing of Sun Microsystems diminished as Sun stopped attacking Linux and started moving towards open source software.
The most impressive aspect of Microsoft's statement on Thursday in favour of caring and sharing wasn't in anything the company said. It was the speed at which the world, or that part of it not in a commercial relationship with Microsoft, digested the information and replied: Heard it before. Not good enough.
Richard Stallman, leader of the Free Software Foundation and chief author of the General Public License (GPL) used Novell's BrainShare conference in Utah to criticise the software maker's controversial deal with Microsoft.
Following some frosty responses to Microsoft's controversial patent deal with Novell last year, the software maker has begun a more aggressive attempt to persuade open-source software companies to license its know-how.
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General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle.
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He's baaack! At the recently concluded World Congress on Information Technology 2002, Microsoft's Craig Mundie registered his objection to those awful folks who take the liberty to compete with his company.
The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?
Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community.
The growing popularity of Linux will force Microsoft to bring its software to the Unix clone starting in late 2004, a research firm has predicted in a study that Microsoft promptly disputed.
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