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Microsoft Receives Open Source VIP Blessing

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the go-with-tux-my-child dept.

* * Beatles-Beatles writes to let us know that Larry Rosen has given his blessing to the new terms that Microsoft is Making their Office XML Reference Schema available under. Rosen, "the attorney that wrote the book on open source licensing and the man who was the Open Source Initiative's first general counsel and secretary," described this move as the "most significant olive branch to date" to come from the Redmond software giant.

2 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. best of both worlds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If MS supports an open format, it will mean that governments can't reject it.

    But if the new format is not the default format for "save as", then no one will use it and they will still have their vendor lock-in.

  2. Re:Here is a dumb thought by ifwm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Actually, from what I recall, it was a different person you "caught lying." (Though I read the whole thread, and it appears your definition of "lying" seems to be much less rigorous than mine.)"

    My criteria is "something that is demonstrably false" such as the idiot Windbourne's claims about PCR.

    As for your definiton, I couldn't care less.