Lived through MS attempt to murder Java and how they tried to kill OSS. MS business motives are entrenched too deep in their DNA to ignore. My source repo is in bitbucket. Now more than ever.

You are 100% correct ArtemaOne. What I can't figure out is why the frok is this so difficult to understand.

Contracts are only part of the issue. Relationships matter more... The only job in my life I've ever been 'fired' from involved precisely this issue. I was contracted to write some simulation dynamics engine. I placed clear headers in each source file indicating that although I was liberally licensing the code to my employer for his use, I retained full ownership of the source code, and I reserved the right to file a claim if my employer turned around and sold or misused the software I wrote without my consent. This came as a shock to my employer as he thought I was being unreasonable. The fact is that the law was on my side. When he realized that, he fired me.

Last summer we ported our GPS receiver client to their Mizi embedded linux platform. I cant wait to see it in production.