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it's not that weird like "zomg micro$oft contributes GPL code zomg zomg" ... Microsoft Research is, at its core, an academic research lab that publishes in acad
by pgbovine 16y ago
it's not that weird like "zomg micro$oft contributes GPL code zomg zomg" ... Microsoft Research is, at its core, an academic research lab that publishes in academia. it's no more surprising than if a university contributes GPL code back to some open source project. (of course, people at MSR do often hack on proprietary projects that they can't open source, though)
- fungi 16y agobasically agree... but it is at least a little more surprising considering MS is still pumping out this trash mms://msnvidweb.wmod.msecnd.net/a10026/e1/ds/us/CMG_US/CMG_Microsoft/9e361baf-9952-4d5e-9a9a-4b0bd0179d8d.wmv (if you have silverlight http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/details/faaf9eb8-77c6-4bed-bc08-c069a7bfbb04 http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/details/faaf9eb8-77c...)
- WalterGR 16y agoit is at least a little more surprising considering MS is still pumping out this trash Microsoft is a huge company. I doubt Office Marketing and Microsoft Research coordinated their release of a marketing video and GPL code, respectively.