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ZDOne writes: "Microsoft has shown that once again despite having a near bottomless marketing budget — it is supremely talented at coming across as ruthless and uncaring.
The boys at Redmond have demanded — with very unsubtle lawyers' letters — that a London-based Windows developer withdraws a version of his free debugging tool from distribution, and is claiming that the tool breaches its licensing conditions.
What's this about Microsoft finally seeing the light around the benefits of an open source community approach to software development — we are not convinced.
Microsoft angered by UK developer
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,3928 7310,00.htm"
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