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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 21:04:32 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
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Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
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Hi!

> . A Microsoft engineer wrote scripts/Configure.  For three years, I have
>   lived in fear that Microsoft would notice this fact and use it to attack
>   Linux through public relations channels or legal means.  They haven't yet,
>   so I have been wrong so far.

What's problem with Microsoft people helping with configure? Not *all* of them
are evil. And GPL is designed to prevent legal abuse from them.
I can't imagine PR attack. "Oh, look, we helped to develop Linux and it
is not killing us"?
								Pavel
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