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3rdalbum
16 years 9 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago
BN doesn't accept my comments anymore
Gawd, you guys are impossible to please. Microsoft contributes improvements to an open-source project LIKE EVERYONE WANTS THEM TO, in an attempt to make their Windows platform better LIKE EVERYONE WANTS THEM TO, and according to you that's some sort of sneaky underhand dealings?
Man, I'm still not convinced that this isn't a parody site...
TtfnJohn
16 years 9 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago
Actually...
BN is turning into a parody of itself though it's earnest and serious.
If those of us in the FOSS world actually believe in the "Four Freedoms" of the GPL and other FOSS ethics then we can't reject Microsoft contributions. We can and should check and double check some of them but we can't reject them.
I must admit to being somewhat puzzled as how PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and the like can be polluted with proprietary code given their licenses and that goes for Apache, too.
Roy has his point of view which he tends to over express and repeat ad naeusium and some of it is quite valid. Unfortunately it gets lost in the barrage of "the sky is falling" chicken little posts and use of classic FUD tactics not only on the "enemy" but on FOSS projects that don't pass his "purity" tests.
Oh, and Machiavelli would consider Microsoft a bunch of bungling amateurs.
ttfn
John