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size=2>Why the GPL Threatens Microsoft's Core Business Model</FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>* 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. </FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>* 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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