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From: "Sergey N. Voronkov" <serg@tmn.ru>
To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Microsoft uses FreeBSD
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:23:13PM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote:
> Just for the record: Microsoft sells GPL'ed tools. See
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/default.asp
> 
> The feature list starts with
>   KornShell, C Shell and Bourne Shell with full job control 
>   Over 300 utilities, including scripting tools such as awk, sed,
>   perl, Tcl/Tk 
>   Berkeley Software Design (BSD) sockets mapped to
>   Winsock 
> 

First at all, if the source is GPLed then it is Open Source. But
Open Source isn't GPL always! (See /COPYRIGHT on FreeBSD as an example).

Second one - sources of the GPLed utilities are available from
Microsoft (see the bottom of the referenced page). So GPL terms
of use aren't broken.

So, if you don't like Microsoft (as I'm), be free to use any 
other software, but do not say they breaks any restricted licenses
when they aren't.

Just my $0.02,

Serg N. Voronkov.

P.S.: Excuse me for my english...

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