Lack of Innovation a Commonality for Microsoft, Apple

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 18, 2009 10:19 AM EDT
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Red faces all around at Redmond last week when Microsoft got caught distributing a utility to create bootable USB drives and DVD backup media from downloaded Windows 7 ISOs. There's nothing wrong with the company's USB/DVD Download Tool in and of itself, apart from the awkward fact (discovered by Rafael Rivera) that it contained code borrowed from an open source project originally made available under the GPLv2. As such, Microsoft should have made the source code for its tool available, and most certainly shouldn't have offered it under the license terms it did.

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Not just Microsoft and Apple... phsolide 5 1,599 Nov 19, 2009 5:40 AM

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