Informatique Pratique

Bernard Ourghanlian, directeur technique de Microsoft France précise : « nous demeurons farouchement opposés à la GPL qui oblige un acteur à reverser ses travaux à la communauté. De notre point de vue, les travaux issus du centre de recherche pourront être commercialisés de toutes les manières, sauf via la licence GPL ».

Said Eolas founder Michael Doyle in an interview with eWeek:

We have from the beginning had a general policy of providing non-commercial users royalty-free licenses. We expect to be paid for the commercial use of our technologies….We released our browser back in 1995 to the world free for non-commercial use, so that should be an indicator to people that the open-source community shouldn't have anything to fear from us. The extent that those products are used commercially by others or resold commercially, sure we expect to be talking to people who are making money through the use of that technology.