[geeks] fwd: Microsoft demands royalties for open-source software

[Sevan / Venture37]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
>Sandwich Maker wrote:
>>" From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>>" " Or possibly anyone running Apache on an open-source operating system 
>>can
>>" counter-claim again Microsoft for damages incurred every time one of
>>" their infected PCs turns into a spam-spewing zombie?  I suspect MSFT
>>" would come out behind on that sort of deal.
>>
>>which reminds me of the rumor that ms themselves run apache, hacked to
>>report the ms server [iis?] id string, on their own site.  ms servers
>>fell over under the load...
>
>This was certainly documentably true at one time.
>
>See also the initial Microsoft acquisition of Hotmail, and the abortive
>attempt shortly afterward to migrate it onto Windows, and the frantic
>move back onto *BSD when the MS servers, again, couldn't cope.
>
>
>

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/case/hotmail/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/case/hotmail/hotapp.mspx

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