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11 Oct 2024 03:16:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!  
From: nemesis
Date: 9 Feb 2008 18:50:00
Message: <web.47ae3b934d3a639344d8956c0@news.povray.org>
Saul Luizaga <sau### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> >   If MS tried to buy the Free Software Foundation, that would be interesting.
>
> That is MS & Bill Gates wet dream, dooms day for MS competition at the
> best price possible (free).

That would only mean Bill'd be the copyright owner of several important GPL
projects.  Unfortunately for him, said copyright specifically grants the right
to others to copy and change the software the license covers.  If that day ever
happened, day 2 would see some thousands of forks for said software...


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