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'Shared Source' .NET Overview

Posted by timothy on from the fwiw dept.

Lisa writes: "As part of Microsoft's Shared Source initiative, the company announced Tuesday the public availability of more than 1 million lines of Windows and Microsoft .NET source code--aimed primarily at universities. I guess Microsoft hopes to slow down academic support for the open-source Linux OS. Don't know why they expect this to work, but Brian Jepson has a nice overview of this shared source release."

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  1. Re:Don't look or you'll be tainted! by bjepson · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Eben Moglen, general counsel to the FSF, gave the DotGNU project his opinion on the Shared Source license and tainting.

    - Brian