WiX Project Lead Interviewed On CPL Licensing

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WiX Project Lead Interviewed On CPL Licensing

Posted by simoniker on Friday April 23, 2004 @08:31PM from the give-it-away-now dept.

comforteagle writes "After Microsoft released WiX (Windows Installer XML) under the CPL I found it odd that so many interviews following were with almost everyone but the project lead. So, for your Friday enjoyment I've posted an interview with Rob Mensching, Wix Project lead, who sheds a little light on what's going on behind the scenes at the Shared Source Initiative from the ground." Mensching explains: "My bosses were not involved in the decision which license should be used for the Windows Installer XML toolset. I worked with members of the Shared Source Initiative team who understand the details of the various licenses available to share source code. They listened to my requirements and found that the CPL seemed most appropriate for the toolset."

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One question: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-23 20:38 · Score: 3, Funny

How does this make Microsoft yet more evil?
1. Re:One question: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-23 21:42 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  If you can't think of a reason why anything could make Microsoft any more evil then.. Welcome new user! Enjoy your stay at this lovely board!
German by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-23 20:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Next time, ask around to see what a name means in other languages before you choose it for an international project... You don't want to name your project "WiX" in Germany.
1. Re:German by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-23 20:55 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "Wichsen" is manual stimulation of the male genitals, usually masturbation. If someone introduced you as the "Leiter des WiX projekts", that would mean you are the leader of the masturbation project.
2. Re:German by neglige · 2004-04-23 21:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You don't want to name your project "WiX" in Germany
  
  No, but boy will this be fun (see other posts for translations) :)
  
  Now, your installation can be "hingewixt" quickly on your "wixed" system. Many people already suspected that everything from MS is "abgewixt". But, best of all, as it is free (as in speech), anybody can "wixen", and everyone can share the "wixe" and knowledge about "wixen".
  
  Thank you, Microsoft, for making tech-talk on public transit so much more... interesting.
  
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3. Re:German by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-23 21:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Well, it's a social networking service, isn't it?
4. Re:German by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-23 23:15 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Now, your installation can be "hingewixt" quickly
  
  And, because it's M$ stuff, it is sure to "zerwix" your system.
5. Re:German by mritunjai · 2004-04-23 23:37 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  If someone introduced you as the "Leiter des WiX projekts", that would mean you are the leader of the masturbation project.
  And that is what exactly this is!! Isn't WiX a great MS effort of pleasing itself with open source concept ?? :-P
  
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Re:Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-23 21:21 · Score: 1, Funny

yes, making dos edit, but I heard VI users disagree.
Re:about sig (offtopic)Re:Ahaaa a M$ renegade by eclectro · 2004-04-23 21:21 · Score: 2, Funny

If linux and bsd are blond and brunett, which o.s. is the redhead

That would be FreeDos obviously.

Windows would be a 300 pound guy with lots of stubble chomping on a cigar.

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Re:Microsoft by rking · 2004-04-23 21:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Has Microsoft ever done ANYTHING that /. has approved of?

Didn't they kill clippy?
Heh by mackstann · 2004-04-23 21:57 · Score: 1, Funny

Last question in the interview: "Are you an evil minion bent on destroying the opensource community?"
Re:Not oracle by CdBee · 2004-04-23 22:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Orca - you culd have a whale of a time making killer jokes about that

oh.. wait...

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Smeg refrigerators by CaptainCheese · 2004-04-23 22:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Thing is, smegma is an international term for manliest cheese of all. It's medical latin.

so I think those crazy smeg folks are just a bunch of weirdos.

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It's hopeless... by Kjella · 2004-04-23 23:18 · Score: 2, Funny

...there's so many languages, you're bound to run into some bad word, or that is homothetic to some bad word. For instance, Ford introduced a car model called Fitta, which in Norwegian would be like "Ford Cunt". Their slogan was "Small on the outside, large when you get inside". Now for a car, that might not be such a bad slogan... They renamed it Honda Jazz here, but I think they still use that name elsewhere.

Kjella

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I wonder how long ... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-23 23:43 · Score: 2, Funny

... it will be before MS patents "A method of sharing software source code freely"?
Ten years hence... by Queuetue · 2004-04-23 23:45 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe it's so when the courts try to force MS to open it's source in the coming decade, they can tell Congress

"It's wrong to call us closed source. We have had core features of our OS open sourced since 2004! On SourceForge, even!"
Re:Interesting Interview by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-24 00:07 · Score: 1, Funny

The question is - is this a "hip fake" to the OSS community to fool everyone while they finalize their master plan of world domination of all computers everywhere, or is it an example of M$ recognizing the value of OSS and using it when it makes sense?

It is an example of MS recognizing the value of OSS and using it when it makes sense for their master plan of world domination of all computers everywhere. ;-)