a) If Microsoft ends up using Unix, but calling it their own special
name and badmouthing the other Unices at the same time, they'll
be doing what every other Unix vendor on the planet does. Who
cares? It still Unix.
b) Microsoft has a very large programming staff, many of which are
fairly sane people. The temptation to leak the beans and watch
the marketeers get pie in their faces may prove to be irresistable.
>They simply can take advantage of BSD code whenever they
>see fit - without acknowledging it and without giving back anything. It's
>unethical and abusive,
On the contrary, it is neither; the BSD code is released under a
license that lets people squirrel it away in proprietary code. It's
not unethical to do something that you're permitted to do with free
software, even if you're simply using it as a gun to shoot yourself
in the foot with.
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