[geeks] fwd: Microsoft demands royalties for open-source software

[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
> " 
> " Or possibly anyone running Apache on an open-source operating system can
> " counter-claim again Microsoft for damages incurred every time one of
> " their infected PCs turns into a spam-spewing zombie?  I suspect MSFT
> " would come out behind on that sort of deal.
> 
> which reminds me of the rumor that ms themselves run apache, hacked to
> report the ms server [iis?] id string, on their own site.  ms servers
> fell over under the load...

This was certainly documentably true at one time.

See also the initial Microsoft acquisition of Hotmail, and the abortive
attempt shortly afterward to migrate it onto Windows, and the frantic
move back onto *BSD when the MS servers, again, couldn't cope.



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