[Qt-interest] GPL and static linking

[Garth Dahlstrom]

If you think the criticism of MS is baseless I would encourage you to read up about what happened with Microsoft Java, the Windows 2000 implementation of TCP/IP (that code was BSD licensed, so there is nothing wrong with proprietary forking) or more recently the OOXML document fiasco...  Then there is how they helped advance the general state of consumer computing backwards for years by innovating against Netscape (as soon as Netscape died IE stagnated), innovating against BeOS, innovating against Stacker w/ DOS 6 DoubleSpace, to name a few that come to mind...  

Here are some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java#Sun_vs._Microsoft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooxml#Standardization_process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape#Disbanding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Inc.#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_lawsuit


On 2009-11-25, at 3:29 PM, qt-interest-request at trolltech.com wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:57:13 +0300, Garth Dahlstrom <ironstorm at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> preventing proprietary forking (*cough*... Microsoft... *cough*)
> Can you prove that Microsoft is illegally using free code in their  
> commercial products? Without proofs your words sound just like a calumny.
> 
> Please, don't act like a fanatic who groundlessly blames everything he  
> doesn't like (be it Microsoft or anything else).
> 
> P.S.: Sorry if that was rude, I didn't want to insult anyone. I'm just  
> tired of huge amount of inadequate criticism of Microsoft (yes, sometimes  
> they use unfair ways of doing their business, but that doesn't mean  
> Microsoft is the worst villain in IT world).
> 


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