[mercury-users] Microsoft's financial support

[Ralph Becket]

As I see it, whether or not you trust MS is immaterial.  Either you trust
the current *Mercury developers* or you don't.  If the latter, you can
either
use a different language or start a concurrent line of development from the
existing sources.  As far as I can tell the current licensing conditions
guarantee you this freedom.

Ralph

> From: Marko Schuetz [mailto:marko at ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de]
> 
> I couldn't agree more. But it's not the whole story: there is a NDA
> about the details of the deal, so one thing that was sold is the
> ability to speak freely about the details of the deal and have them
> openly criticized or applauded (or whatever else people would like to
> do). 
>
> [...] 
>
> Tyson> spending their money on free software.  Consider it as a kind
> Tyson> of Robin Hood thing ;-)
> 
> Don't get me wrong: I do think that these are honorable motives and I
> think it is a great thing to support free software. I don't believe
> that these are Microsofts motives. And you are taking a high risk
> meeting them on their (legal/financial/marketing) turf.
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