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Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net
nberardi writes "On Monday, April 5, 2004, as part of the Shared Source Initiative, Microsoft released the source code for the Windows Installer XML (WiX) developer tool to SourceForge under the IBM Common Public License or CPL. The WiX project is the first Shared Source Initiative to go "public" on Source Forge rather than a Microsoft site. It is also the first to use an externally created Open Source license. Microsoft supports the idea that a software developer should be free to choose how they license their work and for the goals of WiX, the CPL was the right fit. Is this another ploy from Microsoft to not look like the bad guy, or do you think they are embracing on the Open Source movement?" Slashdot and SourceForge are both part of OSDN.
KDE don't have a monopoly. If you're a monopoly, the rules change. You're not allowed to use your monopoly in one market to muscle out rivals in another market - which is what Microsoft have repeatedly done.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Amazing how one slashdot user can single-handedly represent the collective values of the entire open source community. Give me a break.
I do agree with the rest of your post, though. In fact, I (like many other slashdot users) consider the BSD license "more free" than the GPL.
Get it thru your thick head that Microsoft has been convicted of illegal monopolistic practices. This is just like the difference between your mom and a convicted kiddie porn maker opening a child care center.
What is so frigging hard to understand about that? Microoft has been convicted of leveraging their monopoly to enter into new fields. Here they are doing something new (for themselves) again. Of course it is ugly. If you can't see that, you are blind.
Infuriate left and right
Windows users are like so much cooler then linux users y'know. They are dreamy!. I wish one of them would ask me to the prom, I'd hate to go to the prom with with one of those ugly linux users.
I bet britney uses windows.
evil is as evil does
Christians have a funny habit of saying their place where evil people go after they die freezes over (I guess opposed to the usual fire and grimstone) whenever an unusual event occurs.
If Jesus weren't nailed to a cross about two thousand years ago (it must be true: it was in a movie!) and he had some sort of divine power of immortality, I'm sure he'd be telling all of us that Hell has, indeed, just frozen over.
By the way, is up down and down up now?
On vit, on code et puis on meurt.