Microsoft Receives Open Source VIP Blessing

* * 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.

Comments

I'm minded to recall a Zap Brannigan quote

[Rogerborg]

"We come swinging the olive branch of peace."

Re:Submitter is a link spammer-stop posting his st

[21st Century Peon]

come on... top ten post.............
Daddy needs a free iPod...

Re:Who?

[RandoX]

I've seen Microsoft referred to in a lot of ways they wouldn't use themselves.

Re:Isn't XML readable anyways?

[marsu_k]

>>The pitfalls could be summarized into these three points, as I see it:
>>1) Patents/licenses
>>2) Is Microsoft itself going to conform to the specification

>You're forgetting something

Point 3?

* * Beatles-Beatles

[eno2001]

Goofus (AKA * * Beatles-Beatles) runs a pointless business simply to make money without providing any useful service or good other than serving his own avarice by raising his Google rating.

Gallant works as a programmer for a company that releases most of their products into the Free/Open software world and simply has a social conscience that extend beyond himself.

Goofus works very hard at finding quick and easy ways to make money with nothing productive being done.

Gallant knows the value of hard work combined with the end goal of making the world a better place to live and uses his work as a way of improving life for others. Anything that he benfits from is incidental and not the reason for working.

Goofus loathes REAL work and is always keeping his eyes open for scams like abuse of Google link ratings as opposed to actually making a product or providing a REAL service of any kind.

Gallant spends his free time trying to warn citizens of the internet of the various ways in which supposed "businesses" abuse internet resources to try and raise page ranking.