Microsoft ships GPL'd software
I've just seen what may be the first case of Microsoft publicly distributing GPL'd software. Their Computational Clustering Technical Preview Toolkit includes the PLAPACK Parallel Linear Algebra Package, which is released under the GPL.
Microsoft also ship some GPL'd GNU utilities in their Services for Unix package.
There's nothing wrong with this; in fact it's great to see Microsoft finally becoming part of the free software community. (Welcome to the 90s.) I suppose if they're giving it to their customers it means they think it's a good thing, and the GPL is not a "cancer", "virus", "communism", "intellectual-property destroying", mean to kittens, etc.
(Does anyone have an archive of stupid/embarassing things Microsoft have said about free software?)
I have a little image of the Berlin Wall falling...
posted Thu 8 Jan 2004 in /issues/microsoft | link
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