Article: Why is Microsoft attacking the GPL?

[Warren Togami]

http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/articles/currents/0032.html

(from the article)
Why the GPL Threatens Microsoft's Core Business Model
  a.. * Microsoft can't play its "embrace and extend" game with GPL-licensed software because the company can't appropriate and modify the code. If Linux had been released under the BSD license, Microsoft would have probably already released a version of Linux, Linux++ or Linux# or L-Nux, with a variety of maddeningly incompatible oddities that taken together would make it even more difficult to develop applications for Linux. 
  b.. * A GPL-licensed application pool is indeed forming around Linux, and Microsoft can't figure out how to attack it. You can't attack the companies, because--as Eazel recently proved--the software's still around, even if the company shuts down or gives up on the product. 

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