[Baypiggies] Marginally Relevant: Open Source Value to Companies

[Glen Jarvis]

Thanks, Andrew. Both articles were very interesting. I wish I were  
involved with python 15 years ago. Alas, I hadn't even heard of it  
until 2006 :(

Glen

On Dec 21, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Andrew Dalke <dalke at dalkescientific.com>  
wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2009, at 5:36 AM, Aahz wrote:
>> Despite the recent embrace of Python and Open Source by Microsoft as
>> represented by IronPython,
>
> As a reminder of history, Microsoft shipped a product based on  
> Python in 1996
>
>  http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-ships-python-code-in-1996.html
>
> though I don't think that was much of an embrace.
>
> Historically Microsoft hasn't had a problem with open source  
> licenses like BSD, it's with free software licenses like the GPL.  
> See for example
>
>  http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357
>
>
>                Andrew
>                dalke at dalkescientific.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Baypiggies mailing list
> Baypiggies at python.org
> To change your subscription options or unsubscribe:
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies