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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. Standard - oh my. by ratatask · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do we really want this mess to become our standards ?

    *shrug*, call me a flaimbaiter - but whatever happened to clear and simple ?

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