The move is less appealing than it seems up front. We only need the compatibility information, nothing more, nothing less, and the ability to legally use it.

It doesn’t solve any problems for us.

Since they have done that we have even more of a motive to be public.

That Microsoft now questions the competency and integrity of a trustee they themselves helped appoint is outrageous. All the parties involved in the case found the trustee showed an intimate competence and understanding. How do...

This ‘commitment’ is poisoned – they do it in a way that worsens the situation for free software: because that source code is under Microsoft copyright, developers who have seen the source code cannot re-implement...