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		rando832 on July 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply wi... And Microsoft said all GPL was a cancer and unamerican and viral and disallowed it from about 50k engineer's computers due to "legal risk of GPL virality", and this was when they were by far the biggest software company. Wait, they lied? It was all FUD and really about threatening their business model. They changed their policies and actually said publicly they were wrong. Is it so hard to believe?

knorker on July 27, 2020 [–]

Right. So because MS used the wrong strategy that is evidence that Google's lawyers are deriving incorrect legal conclusions?

Is that your argument?

So because MS was wrong once, Google is wrong other times of your choosing?

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