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A Slightly-Softer Microsoft Shared Source License

Posted by timothy on from the just-initial-here-and-here-and-here-and-here dept.

RadBlock writes "Microsoft Watch has a story on a recent change in Microsoft's shared-source licensing... I guess the main difference is that programmers do not have to send back any changes made to the source code. But they can't combine any of the Microsoft code with other software. Here's the full text of their new license agreement." The article claims that Microsoft is "inching closer -- at least in spirit -- to the GNU GPL" with these license tweaks, but it doesn't look that way to me.

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  1. FIRST FUCK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yahoo, slashdot suck shit malda eat shit malda fuck you malda nigger bastard malda fat idiot

    1. Re:FIRST FUCK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No you aren't, I am.

  2. First Post by doomdog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just another pathetic attempt at being first :)

    1. Re:First Post by doomdog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You know, I'm not sure which is worse: a pathetic attempt at being "First", or wasting mod points on such an unworthy post....

      :-)

    2. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Twice! Hehehehe people are indeed pathetic.

  3. YOU FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you enjoy failure? I guess not...so, don't FAIL IT again!

  4. Re:Inching closer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    We are dropping our explosives on your houses till you're dead
    Watch as all your pregnant women get abortion bombs instead!
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    No more school for Junior now he's working in our shops
    Making Nikes for our children every day until he drops
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    Gory Bloody Bombs Away, Roll!
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    Our bombs drop on your Mom! ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation. ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f, ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.

  5. Needs Help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi! I would really appreciate it if someone could post some pictures of pretty girls tied down and being forced to eat feces.

    I know it's kinda sick, but this sort of stuff really turns me on and I'm having real trouble locating such pictures.

    Any links, please? Thanks!

  6. this is a test by slIort · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this is only a test

    1. Re:this is a test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Did it work?

  7. So, it's not about oil, eh? by the-w-himself! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning: In any conflict, your fate will depend on your actions. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to US corporations.

  8. dont ask me i dont give a damn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    war w4r war lets go to w a r WAR wear war! WTF SLASHDOT AND YOUR COMPRESSION FILTERS. NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

    let loose the blooddimmed tide

    i guess this was OT -5?