Microsoft's quest for shared-source approval
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| During this time, Microsoft was on the attack, worried in particular by the
| impact that free software was having on government computing projects, with
| their emphasis on cost and accountability. Within a matter of months
| Microsoft executives Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Craig Mundie and Jim Allchin
| all made statements about the dangers of free software.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/features/126176/microsofts-quest-for-sharedsource-approval.html
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My resolve to treat Microsoft like any another license submitter is being
sorely tested.
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| They haven't stopped at pushing a "standard" that is divisive, technically
| bogus, and an obvious tool of monopoly lock-in; they have resorted to lying,
| ballot-stuffing, committee-packing, and outright bribery to ram it through
| the ISO standardization process in ways that violate ISO's own guidelines
| wholesale.
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| This is not behavior that we, as a community, can live with. Despite my
| previous determination, I find I'm almost ready to recommend that OSI tell
| Microsoft to ram its licenses up one of its own orifices, even if they are
| technically OSD compliant. Because what good is it to conform to the letter
| of OSD if you're raping its spirit?
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http://opensource.org/node/192
Is Open Source the Best Way to Unlock the Value of IT?
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| "Open source can give you a common operating platform for real, and if you
| use Linux as a leveler, the individual ships will all right themselves rather
| than colliding into one another," he said, pointing to the fact that even
| Microsoft submitted two of its licenses to the OSI for approval, although as
| a company it remains ambivalent toward open source.
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| Tiemann also defended the recently released update to the GNU GPL (General
| Public License), pointing out that that OSI and Free Software Foundation
| agreed more than they disagreed.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2186038,00.asp
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