[LUAU] Did Microsoft give up?

[Clifton Royston]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:20:44AM -1000, NetOpsCenter wrote:
> Aloha,
> 
> I just saw on TV news that Micro$oft has announced that it is opening 
> its code for development of its operating system.
> Does this mean the Open Source Community has proved itself the best way 
> to go?

  Given that Bill Gates seems to have close financial connections with
the Saud-funded consortium that has announced its intention to buy up
SCO, pump $100M into it, and continue its legal battles against Linux,
Unix, and open source, I'd say not.

  Microsoft's past "open source" licenses have on examination proved to
be anything but open.

  They typically boil down to "sign a whole lot of papers and we'll let
you see our code, and then ha-ha, you're tainted and we'll sue the
pants off you if you release any open source code vaguely related to
what we've opened up."

  -- Clifton

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