[Am-info] The Register: Opera makes hay with MS Mac Arabic/Hebrew snub

[Sujal Shah]

I would point out that it's not necessary to have a GPL license just to 
have source available.  A proper framework that required source to 
qualify for copyright and statutory IP protection would really be 
ideal.  I'm defining a proper framework as one that protected 
content/software/IP creators as well as protected consumers and other IP 
producers from the "Shared Source" quandry (otherwise known as, if I say 
I've seen this bit of code, will Microsoft one day sue me for a similar 
bit of code).

Sujal

On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 10:30 PM, Mark Hinds wrote:

>
> Without meaning to start a GPL sucks/doesn't suck argument, this 
> higlights
> one of the values of cumpulsory source availability. These guys are 
> actually
> willing to do the work themselves and give it to MS so there wil be a 
> Mac Hebrew
> version, but MS won't even allow that. As I understand it this is 
> exactly the
> kind of thing that prompted Stallamn in the first place. How else can 
> such
> behavior be prevented?
>
> >This apparently has prompted an anti-trust complaint in Israeli 
> following a
> >further refusal by Microsoft to accept a programming team to implement 
> Hebrew
> >character support in Office for them!
>
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