[Am-info] Areas for Concern

[Fred A. Miller]

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GOOD article!

Fred

"This document addresses a presentation [more detailed mirror here]=20
colloquially known as "MS-GPL" and described as "a presentation of Micros=
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Benelux in Belgium & Luxembourg." The slides, dated 22 November 2002, pur=
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to be Microsoft's most recent response to the Free Software Foundation's=20
General Product Licence (GPL).

Halloween VII mentioned achieving limited success through publicising Sha=
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Source, and it looks like Dirk Tombeur's presentation is an attempt to=20
leverage that success.

I have only addressed the slides entitled "Areas of Concern" since the re=
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the presentation is mainly non-controversial background material. Quotes =
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taken literally, which means American English spelling; these comments ar=
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written in Australian English for the very simple reason that the author=20
happily hails from Down Under and refuses to adjust his spelling to suit =
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of the world's population (at the expense of at least as many others in=20
various Commonwealth localities)."

http://cyberknights.com.au/articles/areas-for-concern.phtml

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"DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content
that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -=
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Rickard
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