Advice for Red Hat/Fedora

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 16:45 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 15:34 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >  > On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:22 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >  > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Jim Cornette
> >  > > <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> >  > > > >>> On the other hand M$ anounced today it would rellease 3,000 pages of its
> >  > > >  >>> Vista and Office code to the public.
> >  > > >  >> Errr... that's 30,000 pages.  How fast can you make everything
> >  > > >  >> interoperate perfectly now?
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  What is the goal for releasing the pages? Improve it, then get sued for
> >  > > >  using the code?
> >  > > >  Or is it because Microsoft is concentrating on gaming and embedded
> >  > > >  devices and expecting others to make it less of a nightmare?
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > > Look, I don't know where this rumor came out. I don't think Microsoft
> >  > > is releasing Vista or Office code, no I think this at all relevant to
> >  > > Fedora Linux
> >  > I agree it may not be relevant but I heard Steve Balmer say they were
> >  > releasing the code.
> >
> >  AFAIK they are releasing *documentation* (including APIs), not code.
> 
> 
> That's what I've been trying to say. And they are not really releasing
> it, they are making available to people willing to PAY for it. It is
> NOT free.

No, it is free (as in beer) for "non-commercial" use. OTOH, it's
unlikely to be as useful as MS would have us believe, see
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080221184924826

poc