linuxjournal.com — That's right: Microsoft has released not one but several pieces of code as open source. Moreover, it's submitting some of its home-grown licences to the Open Source Initiative for approval. So what is going on here?
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hornyfoxAug 11, 2007
It worked, by the way.
adolfojpAug 11, 2007
They are in the bussiness of making money. They will open source whatever makes bussiness sense. For example: <a class="user" href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/27/MS-open-source-Silverlight_1.html">http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/27/MS-open-source-Silverlight_1.html</a>
tetracaAug 11, 2007
That's exactly what they fear.
johnfluxAug 11, 2007
You could care less?
weebitAug 12, 2007
Bait and switch maybe
svpirateAug 13, 2007
This is pretty two-faced. First they try to buy out Open Source companies with half-baked indemnity agreements (with no allowance for GPL3), and accuse Open Source Software at large of violating 100s of their patents, then they go all gooey and buddy-buddy and join in the Open Source movement.Is it me or does Microsoft sound like it's splitting in half down the middle, with Balmer and his cronies on one side trying to kill off anything that moves in the wrong direction, and the people with the real brains on the other, trying disparately to drive the company forward? If nothing else it seems to have a serious case of Multiple Personality Disorder...
locksmithdonSep 9, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://opensource.org/node/207">http://opensource.org/node/207</a> Doh!