[News] [Rival] Microsoft's Violation of the GPL Still Lacking Remedy
Roy Schestowitz
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Microsoft fails to open source Windows 7 USB tool
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| A posting on Microsoft's Port 25 blog last
| week revealed that the company had failed
| to release the code of the Windows 7
| USB/DVD Download Tool. Microsoft had
| admitted that the tool contained code from
| a GPL licensed application, ImageMaster,
| which was hosted on Microsoft's CodePlex
| project hosting site. Peter Galli,
| Microsoft's Open Source Community Manager,
| said "While we worked extremely hard to
| try and get the code ready for release by
| today, we still need to test and localise
| it". The plan is now to release the code
| "in the next few weeks".
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-fails-to-open-source-Windows-7-USB-tool-867103.html
Recent:
Microsoft embraces the GPL
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| Here’s the point that I find the most
| interesting, and that most commentators are
| not picking up on: this is just another
| example of Microsoft’s absolute
| incompentance in the area of Open Source.
| Which puts the lie to the entire idea of
| the Microsoft Codeplex Foundation being any
| sort of “driver” in the Open Source area.
|
| That fact of the matter is that Microsoft
| lacks the experience, credibility or
| expertise to be any sort of “driver” in the
| Open Source space, but the Microsoft
| Codeplex Foundation is a way for Microsoft
| to basically buy itself into the driver’s
| seat. Once there, I expect to see a ton of
| messaging attempting to shape thought
| around Open Source in a direction Microsoft
| finds acceptable.
|
| If you like mirror analogies, it would be
| like RMS setting up the Proprietary
| Software Foundation, and him going around
| saying that he really wants to balance the
| “needs of proprietary software with the
| interests of freedom”.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/11/microsoft-embraces-the-gpl/
Microsoft pulls download tool over GPL violation accusation
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| Microsoft has taken offline an utility it
| supplies to help download DVD and USB images
| of Windows 7 purchased online, while it
| investigates allegations that GPL-ed code was
| used to develop the tool.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29193/1090/
SFLC tech director finds one new GPL violator every day
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| Bradley Kuhn, the technical director of
| the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC),
| has published a helpful set of guidelines
| about the most productive way to respond
| to a suspected violation of GNU's General
| Public License (GPL). The guidelines
| caution against jumping to conclusions and
| encourages free software enthusiasts to
| give violators the benefit of the doubt.
| GPL violations are extremely common, he
| says, but most of them are accidental.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/sflc-tech-director-finds-one-new-gpl-violator-every-day.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
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> Microsoft fails to open source Windows 7 USB tool
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | A posting on Microsoft's Port 25 blog last
> | week revealed that the company had failed
> | to release the code of the Windows 7
> | USB/DVD Download Tool. Microsoft had
> | admitted that the tool contained code from
> | a GPL licensed application, ImageMaster,
> | which was hosted on Microsoft's CodePlex
> | project hosting site. Peter Galli,
> | Microsoft's Open Source Community Manager,
> | said "While we worked extremely hard to
> | try and get the code ready for release by
> | today, we still need to test and localise
> | it". The plan is now to release the code
> | "in the next few weeks".
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> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-fails-to-open-source-
Windows-7-USB-tool-867103.html
In short, micoshaft has added a lot of snooping tools to the
GPL'd code and now they can't release it until
code is completely washed and sent through several rinse cycles.
A quick check of the binary should then reveal all the functions
micoshaft has removed, It would still mean they are not GPL
compliant. Because they are still not releasing the GPL'd code
as origintally distributed for which they broke the law and
continue to break the law by not releasing the original unmodified code.
Chris Ahlstrom
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft fails to open source Windows 7 USB tool
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | A posting on Microsoft's Port 25 blog last
>> | week revealed that the company had failed
>> | to release the code of the Windows 7
>> | USB/DVD Download Tool. Microsoft had
>> | admitted that the tool contained code from
>> | a GPL licensed application, ImageMaster,
>> | which was hosted on Microsoft's CodePlex
>> | project hosting site. Peter Galli,
>> | Microsoft's Open Source Community Manager,
>> | said "While we worked extremely hard to
>> | try and get the code ready for release by
>> | today, we still need to test and localise
>> | it". The plan is now to release the code
>> | "in the next few weeks".
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-fails-to-open-source-Windows-7-USB-tool-867103.html
>
> In short, micoshaft has added a lot of snooping tools to the
> GPL'd code and now they can't release it until
> code is completely washed and sent through several rinse cycles.
"Code laundering", eh? :-D
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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Thursday 26 Nov 2009 23:57 : \____
Samba was a victim of some. Listen to this new show:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2009/nov/19/0x1B/
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Roy Schestowitz
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____/ 7 on Thursday 26 Nov 2009 21:21 : \____
"Law"? Hehe. Microsoft never cared about this "Law" thing.
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