Microsoft funds questionable study attacking GPL 3 draft process

Posted by SamShazaam on May 22, 2007 11:33 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Ryan Paul
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A study (PDF) funded by Microsoft and carried out by Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack aims to determine what kind of features and protections developers want in version 3 of the widely-used General Public License (GPL 3). The study, which uses extremely questionable methodology, concludes that open-source software developers don't want the GPL 3 to impose extensive patent licensing requirements or prevent agreements like the controversial cross-licensing deal between Novell and Microsoft.

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