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As it was commented previously, DiBona's point about deterring copycat licenses and reducing license proliferation is not only valid, but crucial.

Moreover, as a newcomer to the Open Source Community, it only make sense that MS adopts an existing license, say GPL v3, instead of coming with its own.

I am sure that somewhere within the intricacies of the MPL, lies a flaw that evil MS will a use to screw us up

@Tam Lin: nonsense: MS reign of evil started with Windows 1.0

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