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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
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dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

> It's certainly the case that some licenses DO convey more
> rights, e.g. the BSD license. Microsoft certainly prefers the BSD
> license to the GPL (though they of course would
> use neither themselves)

Of course they use the GPL only if they have to (e.g. for parts of
Interix), but they pay at least one person for working on free
software which is licensed under the BSD license (and no, it doesn't
run only on Windows)...