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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.

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  1. WTF editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok on the front page 2 submissions from beatles beatles and 2 from prostoalex.
    Are there no other worthy people submitting articles?

  2. Oh good. by Necro+Spork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now maybe AbiWord will actually work on my computer. It always did werid things when inserting text.

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    120 chars of filth!
  3. Re:Here is a dumb thought by ifwm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Don't get me wrong. I get tired of the trollers here (ifwm comes to mind)"

    The only reason you don't like me is because I caught you lying and called you on it. You still haven't owned up to it by the way, why is that?

    Also, do you know how incredibly sad it is that you have to follow me around using your mod points on everything I post?

  4. Re:Here is a dumb thought by WindBourne · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    because I caught you lying and called you on it.

    Uh no. I simply got sick of your stuff. I have worked the jobs that I have said (age and mutiple degrees does that). You, OTH, did you grow up (or live) in Switzerland, England, NY, or Florida? From some of the links associated with you, apparently, you can not decide. Nor could some of the others.

    But, I just followed some of the links connected to you. New name, eh (and I thought that you simply crawled back to the swamp)? Love the superman post and all the rest. Apparently you rate as a troll all the way around. You seem to have pissed off a number of people (at least 3).

    As I told you long ago, clean up your act. Some of your posts showed a bit of intelligence, but your following it up with a condisciending attitude took away from it. (And this was not even as nasty as most of your stuff). If nothing else, simply grow up.

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    I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
  5. Re:Submitter is a link spammer-stop posting his st by BarryNorton · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The site, though ugly and features incredibly poor color choice and CSS effects, contains a several screens full of George Harrison biography, and less then a couple of dozens links, almost all of which point to other pages on the site and appear to be very George Harrison related.
    The first biography is stolen from the Mr Showbiz site (now defunct, but this whole thing is available on the Web in several places).

    The second biography is stolen from Associated Press (both are actually attributed, but not linked, if you care to look).

    The links, I propose, are trying to solicit reciprocal links (note that there's a dedicated 'Add Our Beatles Link to Your WebSite' link, and that the site has been submitted to various web rings).

    As I say, I could re-create this content and similar (including ripping off discographies, and a random set of images via Google) in minutes...