Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:57:44 -0300 (BRST)

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Paul Flinders wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.html >
> >
> > Of course the URL that goes with that is :
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/features.asp
> >
> > Yes., Microsoft ship GNU C (quite legally) as part of their offerings...
>
> Do they include the source? There's a CD of source that you can buy
> for $20 but gcc isn't listed

I'm not sure if they are allowed to do that. See clause 1 (c):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-files/027/001/516/eula_mit.htm

Rik

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