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Re: MS and Linux products



On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 03:07:12PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Aditya Deshpande wrote:
> > Question Atul is that whether they would respect the GPL and release the
> > source. I think this time they would. 

Respect GPL as applied to ? Linux kernel may be GPL'ed. But MS office
and IE are not modifications to the Linux kernel. Neither is Netscape
navigator GPL'ed.

I'm not sure where the expectation that everything that runs on Linux
should be GPL'ed comes from.

	-Arun