[ale] Weekend laugh - m$ to become more like *nix

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (tfreeman at intel.digichem.net)]

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Jonathan Rickman wrote:

> 
> This brings an interesting question to light...
> 
> If Microsoft started stealing GPL'ed code and including it in Windows (a
> few pieces at a time), effectively creating their own distro and violating
> the GPL...how would we know? We can't review the source, and MD5 sigs and
> the like would be circumstantial evidence at best. Barring a court order,
> how do we *really* know that this isn't happening already?
> 

Sorry I'm not going to take up the challenge. However, this is a special 
case of a more general problem - how can you tell a given computer code 
object is free from various IP encombrences(sp?)? If that question isn't 
challenging enough, improve it by requiring low cost 8-).

> Any takers?
> 
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> Jonathan Rickman
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