-operating system, the most famous bit of "free software"—and IBM is
-emphatically a commercial entity. Thus, to support "open source and
-free software" is not to oppose commercial entities. It is, instead, to
-support a mode of software development that is different from
- Microsoft's.<footnote><para>
-<!-- f8. --> Microsoft's position about free and open source software is more
- sophisticated.
-As it has repeatedly asserted, it has no problem with "open source"
-software or software in the public domain. Microsoft's principal
- opposition
-is to "free software" licensed under a "copyleft" license, meaning a
- license
-that requires the licensee to adopt the same terms on any derivative
-work. See Bradford L. Smith, "The Future of Software: Enabling the
- Marketplace
-to Decide," Government Policy Toward Open Source Software
-(Washington, D.C.: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies,
-American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2002), 69,
-available at
-<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/notes/">link #62</ulink>. See also Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior vice
- president,
-The Commercial Software Model, discussion at New York University
-Stern School of Business (3 May 2001), available at
+operating system, the most famous bit of "free software"—and IBM
+is emphatically a commercial entity. Thus, to support "open source and
+free software" is not to oppose commercial entities. It is, instead,
+to support a mode of software development that is different from
+Microsoft's.<footnote><para>
+<!-- f8. -->
+Microsoft's position about free and open source software is more
+sophisticated. As it has repeatedly asserted, it has no problem with
+"open source" software or software in the public domain. Microsoft's
+principal opposition is to "free software" licensed under a "copyleft"
+license, meaning a license that requires the licensee to adopt the
+same terms on any derivative work. See Bradford L. Smith, "The Future
+of Software: Enabling the Marketplace to Decide," Government Policy
+Toward Open Source Software (Washington, D.C.: AEI-Brookings Joint
+Center for Regulatory Studies, American Enterprise Institute for
+Public Policy Research, 2002), 69, available at
+<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/notes/">link #62</ulink>. See also
+Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior vice president, The Commercial Software
+Model, discussion at New York University Stern School of Business (3
+May 2001), available at