Comments on: Microsoft joins Open Source ? http://blog.marques.cx/2008/02/22/microsoft-joins-open-source/ Comments, notebook, links and all the talk Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:27:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fred http://blog.marques.cx/2008/02/22/microsoft-joins-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-120631 Fred Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:26:48 +0000 http://blog.marques.cx/2008/02/22/microsoft-joins-open-source/#comment-120631 Yes, you're right. Forgot this little detail: "Companies that engage in commercial distribution of these protocol implementations will be able to obtain a patent license from Microsoft,"... patent license, yeah. Yes, you’re right. Forgot this little detail: “Companies that engage in commercial distribution of these protocol implementations will be able to obtain a patent license from Microsoft,”… patent license, yeah.

]]> By: Pedro Melo http://blog.marques.cx/2008/02/22/microsoft-joins-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-120629 Pedro Melo Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:17:14 +0000 http://blog.marques.cx/2008/02/22/microsoft-joins-open-source/#comment-120629 Not so. the licensing is incompatible with the GPL, both v2 and v3. So this annoucement is pretty meaningless. Hell is still pretty warm. best regards, Not so.

the licensing is incompatible with the GPL, both v2 and v3. So this annoucement is pretty meaningless.

Hell is still pretty warm.

best regards,

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