Richard Stallman: What Gates’ attacks on the GPL really mean.
The Microsoft “shared source” programme is not about sharing at all — it is just another name for a nondisclosure agreement. Think twice before you sign, because it is not just antisocial, it is risky too. Around 1990, students who had seen the secret AT&T Unix source code at school found their employment prospects narrowed, because AT&T had threatened to sue when some students used ideas reminiscent of Unix.
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