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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
I agree, there's nothing good about this, but I don't have as bleak a view as far as what this could do to open source. Why? Because it won't do anything to open source. It's not good. It's not bad. The only people in the open source community that will be effected by this are the ones that deserve to be effected - and those are the people that might use this code illegally. When it comes down to it though, I don't know anyone involved in the open source community that would utilize code that they don't have the right to utilize.
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I agree. Most of the people in the OSS area have enough integrity to not deal with the source. However, as we have seen with the recent SCO case, that doesnt stop the allegations from flying. And seeing as these projects are funded and run by people who cant afford to stand up to the wrath of MS lawyers, things could get bleak indeed.