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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. 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...