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Shared Source vs. Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who's-the-driving-the-source dept.

leonbrooks writes "Microsoft are fond of touting Shared Source as being "as good as" Open Source, with a view to muddying the waters as much as possible, and so keeping as many people away from the benefits of Open Source Software (OSS) (particularly Software Libré AKA "Free Software") as they can. This new article analysing the differences arrives just in time for Microsoft's Australia-wide series of "Competitive Hour" misinformation sessions on Open Source, and includes a handy list of potentially showstopper questions. We'd like your help in putting these and other questions to the speaker during such misinformation sessions, with the dual aim of opening the eyes of many of the audience, and reporting back to us what was said so that we can refine the questions to close whatever loopholes are employed in evading these important issues."

11 of 329 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Open Source? More like Openly Racist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jesus was a black man.

  2. Re:Open Source? More like Openly Racist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Please stop plagarizing my stuff. I am an Adequiod and proud of it.

    - cyborg_monkey

  3. I love Arabs and hate Americans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just like the rest of the world, I am sick of fat, dumb americans.

    Get nuked!

  4. FP by Vollernurd · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Er... First Post!

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  5. NO!!!! Microsoft ad on Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ack! Why is there a Microsoft Small Business Server ad embedded on this page!?!?

  6. Re:Very grown-up article! by NineNine · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not writing articles intended to convince anybody of anything. I'm just posting to some message board on the web. Big difference. I think that an article titled "Brittney Rulez!!!" would be about as convincing as this one.

  7. Most of them are African-Americans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Most of the names are indeed Africans-Americans.

    They are Americans of African descent, correct? If you disagree, consider the dominating paradigm in anthropology, thanks to the research of Richard Leakey and others, which tells us that the ancestors of all of us came from Africa.

    This makes everyone in America an African-American. Some of us have more recent African ancestors than others: that is the only difference.

  8. Flamebait my arse... by Gordonjcp · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Post it logged in and you might get a +1 Funny

  9. OSS and FSF racist? by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Depends on what you call race..

    Last time I checked blacks asians and other slavics were different races..

    Remember Cacuasian is a slavic race :)

    But seriusly Asians and black are invovled in opensource.. MS ignoers this fact because they liek being the evil emprie..

    Lets ask a more valid question hwo many women work as programers at MS?

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  10. Mod me down you Nazis ass by diablobynight · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OOPs just got modded down a point for not having the opinion as the moderators. Thanks guys.

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  11. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Lethyos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Communism is PURE!

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