The entire conversation aside... i'm stoked there's an ASP.NET channel on IRC that has people that know what they're talking about in it.
James really had a hard time there :)
I still find it funny how so many people are so blind for the consequences and at the same time find the point that there ARE consequences pretty lame, WHILE MS has the same policy (and other software corps. have it too): don't look at other people's code e.g. don't look at GPL-ed code if you're working on our own code.
So a windows kernel programmer at MS can't look at Linux code at all, it's forbidden by MS. Which is logical, but it is effectually the same thing as me looking at Linq to Sql sourcecode in vs.net's debugger.