Re: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:09:35AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
>         The BSD bigots shall probably hate this, but had MIT kerberos been
>  under the protection of the GPL, this would not have happened. 
> 
>         Microsoft kerberos. Bah.

Another troll huh ? GPL can only "protect" code, not ideas [1] 
Microsoft will still be "free" to implement their own kerberos extensions.

Do you have any evidence to suggest that Microsoft used MIT code ? 

	-Arun

[1] Unless RMS starts a pool of GPL'ed patents, which he will refuse to
license to any commercial software company.