Tag: not really free
We shall baffle them with our patented and closed source bullshit.
by schwim on May.13, 2008, under Software
Microsoft would like to share their source code with the FOSS crowd. Well, not really. What they would like is for some of the FOSS crowd to use some of their code. Then they would like to point out that their code was never actually open source. It was more of a look-but-don’t-touch license. It’s like a lawsuit machine covered in open source gift wrap.
