IP: Open-source fight gets legal

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 1. Open-source fight gets legal
>
> Microsoft lawyers have joined the company's campaign against
> open-source software, restricting how developers may use what
> it terms "viral software" in connection with Microsoft
> programming tools. The license of the second beta version of
> Microsoft's Mobile Internet Toolkit--software used so
> programmers can create server software to connect with
> handheld computers over the Internet--prohibits customers from
> using the Microsoft software in conjunction with "potentially
> viral software."
> June 22, 2001, 11:05 a.m. PT
> http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBvH0Gasa0U0cwm0At



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