A Perspective on Microsoft's Shared Source

Masa writes "ONLamp has an insightful article by Stephen R. Walli about Microsoft Shared Source Initiative and some thoughts, what it would really mean if Microsoft would open-source their operating system. The article gives a nice perspective on the Shared Source Initiative and what it is meant to be. It also shows that even if it might look that Microsoft doesn't understand the value of open source, there actually are some projects under the OSI-approved licenses, for example the WiX Toolset, which is a good example of a successful open source project by Microsoft."

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Re:If..

[DaHat]

You are quoting just one definition of open source, there are many.

Microsoft's Shared Source initiative is a form of open source, just not an OSI approved one... which at the end up the day means nothing.

The definition you quoted is more that of the contemporary view of free (as in speech) software as it pretty well discounts BSD and MIT style licensed software.