Z:gnu-www-ja-gpl-american-way--7cfaa8-No license can stop Microsoft/en

No license can stop Microsoft from practicing &ldquo;embrace and extend&rdquo; if they are determined to do so at all costs. If they write their own program from scratch, and use none of our code, the license on our code does not affect them. But a total rewrite is costly and hard, and even Microsoft can't do it all the time. Hence their campaign to persuade us to abandon the license that protects our community, the license that won't let them say, &ldquo;What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine.&rdquo; They want us to let them take whatever they want, without ever giving anything back. They want us to abandon our defenses.