[FC-discuss] Microsoft Asks Free Culture for Astoturfers and Spammers (WTF)

[Fred Benenson]

Nothing is surprising about it to me, hence my careful wording.

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> On 20/01/10 21:07, Fred Benenson wrote:
> > As surprising as it might seem, Microsoft also supports Creative Commons:
> >
> > http://creativecommons.org/tag/microsoft
> >
>
> What is surprising about that? They give money to the Apache Foundation
> as well. Anything that doesn't threaten their interests. Microsoft are a
> proprietary software company. Neither CC nor permissive licensing
> threatens their ability to remove people's freedom to use software.
>
> But you'll notice they don't support the FSF.
>
> What *would* be surprising would be if News Corp. supported CC...
>
> - Rob (who gives both CC and the FSF money each month).
>
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