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Business Software Alliance, a Microsoft-backed software licence enforcement outfit.
by komadori 3y ago
Business Software Alliance, a Microsoft-backed software licence enforcement outfit.
- mavhc 3y agoHave they published a legal opinion on GPL?
- hulitu 3y agoSteve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches,"
- ttfkam 3y agoKeep in mind that he said this 25-30 years ago when co-running a company whose business was dominating the computing landscape and in direct conflict with the Open Source upstarts. Also, the GPL was maybe 10 years old at that point? A lot has changed since then. There aren't many people who were correct in their predictions about the computer industry at large, the web, or the internet 30 years ago.
- SSLy 3y agoMSFT has not rescinded the statement ever since.
- ttfkam 3y agoThey are one of the biggest corporate contributors to open source software in the world, both in money and in code contributions. https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2018/03/19/microsoft-open-source-licensing-gplv3/ https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2018/03/19/micro... Actions speak louder than words. The Microsoft of 1996 is not the Microsoft of 2023.
- actionfromafar 3y agoThe battle is no longer over the desktop, but over cloud and SAAS. Datacenters are back, clients (even "full desktops") are now thin clients again.
- loeg 3y ago2001 was only 22 years ago.