ms attacks open source

[roryt at roryt.gr]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:00:21PM +0300, Alejandros Diamandidis wrote:
> 
> Το πιθανότερο είναι ότι χρησιμοποίησαν την zlib, που υλοποιεί τον
> αλγόριθμο deflate. Αυτό επιτρέπεται, ορίστε τι λέει η άδεια της zlib:
> 
To zitima den einai an epitrepetai h oxi. Fysika kai o opoiosdipote
mporei na xrisimopoihsei GPL h LGPL kwdika (me kapoious periorismous).
To zitima einai oti h MS bgazei ena proion (wireless internet tools)
me adeia pou apagoreyei na to xrisimopoieis se mixanimata pou exoun
panw programmata "potentially viral", kai me ayto ennoei sxedon olla
ta open source (kai fysika twn GPL), plin oswn einai me license FreeBSD.

Ara an kapoio MS product hdh xrisimopoiei zlib...... :-)))

Anyway, apla to anafera, den mporw oute na to epalitheysw, oute na kserw
auto pou eipe o George (clean implementation xwris kwdika GPL'ed)

roryt