On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Mohit Singh<gmohitsingh(a)gmail.com> wrote: "Over the years, Microsoft statements toward open-source software have ranged from derision and threats to mollification and even cautious praise. Microsoft's Thursday announcement of a significantly more accommodating approach to open-source programmers is just the latest refinement of the company's ambivalence. At the same time that Microsoft's new arrangement opens up previously secret specifications and protocols for use in open-source software, it also insists that companies planning on distributing or using that software need a patent license." Story at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9876187-39.html So long as it promotes or reproduces proprietary, non-free licenses, many of us should refresh our pledge to fight against the corporate. If Open Source/Free Software champions have succeeded in impressing upon the corporate to work in favour of Free Software or Open Source, we would be doing them a disservice by preferring to keep quiet !! CK Raju