[ale] MS borrowed zlib code

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Fri Mar 15 10:28:25 EST 2002


According to a report on CNET, Microsoft is scramling to fix programs
that contain code from zlib. This is funny from several angles. First,
MS has once again been caught borrowing code from an open source
project. Second, they gave no credit to the creators of zlib. The are
able to do this because zlib is not GPL. But once again, they have been
caught borrowing from a movement that they otherwise attack. The entire
article is here:

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-860328.html




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