29 Nov
2002
29 Nov
'02
8:57 a.m.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=29...
The Economic Times
Should governments use open source software?
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2002 01:28:06
[...]
Sanjiv Mathur, Head of marketing, Microsoft, India:
To begin with let me first clarify the term 'Free software.' The word 'free' here specifically means what you can do with the software, not the price.
It is indeed heartening to hear this clarification. But the rest of what Sri Mathur says is Microsoft's standard (boilerplate) FUD about swatantra software in general and the GPL in particular. It has already been debunked:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/25157.html http://pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/ http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gpl-american-way.html