[aklug] Re: Surprised, but not really surprised

From: <jonr@destar.net>
Date: Thu Jul 23 2009 - 10:48:12 AKDT

What Open Source project did they lift the code from?

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/23/microsoft_hyperv_gpl_violation/
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> This has hit the headlines, so you might have heard already. A quote
> from the article:
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> "Microsoft was in violation of the GPL (General Public License) on the
> Hyper-V code it released to open source this week.
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> After Redmond covered itself in glory by opening up the code, it now
> looks like it may have acted simply to head off any potentially
> embarrassing legal dispute over violation of the GPL. The rest was theater."
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