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July 26, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Microsoft to Submit License to OSI
In Bill Hilf's keynote at Oscon today, he announced that Microsoft will submit it's shared source licenses to the OSI for approval. This includes the Microsoft Permissive License, Community License and Reference License. Although a bit late to the party, I think this is still a good step on Microsoft's part. It shows that they appreciate there's a community outside of Microsoft and they are adapting their business practices and licensing in order to be successful there. That to me is highly significant. More coverage here at eWeek by ace reporter Darryl Taft who was on hand and at Internet News by Sean Michael Kerner.
I'll write about the rest of Bill Hilf's presentation on Microsoft's open source efforts next week. But this was too good to pass up.
Posted by Zack Urlocker on July 26, 2007 09:53 PM
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There is certainly room for concern that Microsoft’s OSI apprach could further divide an already fragile and divided community.
Could the term ‘Open Source’ be further diluted by the inclusion of Shared Source licences that fall under the same umbrella of definitions? Last month I spotted an article that referred to shared source as open source, arguing that our ‘friend’ Mr. Hilf is speading the Open Source message in Asia.
Remember deals with XenSource, Zend, and a few other companies that receive incentives from Microsoft in order to abolish and neglect Linux performance? Does this not remind you of Novell, which neglected ODF and began working on OOXML ‘translators’?
Posted by: Roy Schestowitz at July 27, 2007 02:48 AM
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