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Microsoft License Goes to OSI But Not From Redmond

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the heeeey-batter-batter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "eWeek is reporting that a Microsoft Shared Source license, the Microsoft Community License, was submitted to the Open Source Initiative for official approval, but it wasn't Microsoft who submitted it. The license it appears was submitted by John Cowan, who is a programmer and blogger and who also volunteers for the Chester County InterLink, a non-profit founded in 1993 by former OSI president Eric Raymond and Jordan Seidel. Needless to say, the OSI contacted Microsoft to see if it should evaluate the license anyway, and was told to drop it."

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  1. Maybe they fear... by sacarius1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    SCO will sue them? :)

  2. degrees of separation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    But, while Microsoft does not have a problem with one of its licenses being OSI-approved, the challenge is that the OSI has previously positioned itself as "anti-Microsoft," Hilf said, pointing to the fact that even though the OSI has removed the controversial Halloween Documents from its Web site, a link on the site still points to former OSI president Eric Raymond's Web site, where the documents are available.


    Uh oh... IEEE Computer Society links to OSI's site (first sentence, "Open Source"), which links to ESR's site which links to the Halloween docs.

  3. Re:And people wonder why ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know that one is a little of an extrapolation

    Your use of the word extrapolation is a bit of a stretch.

  4. Microsoft's possible fear by jkrise · · Score: 4, Funny

    Upon audit, the license was found to contain non-final wordings.

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  5. Why MS don't want OSI's Blessings by EqualSlash · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently, the MS word spell-checker doesn't recognise 'OSI'.

  6. Re:Pfft.... by CortoMaltese · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...without splitting hares over fine print.
    The official recommendation of PETA is to split hairs, not hares. Preferrably human hairs, from your own head.

    In fact, they even had a campaign with supermodels such as Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell posing naked, with their heads shaved, on billboards, with the slogan "I'd Rather Go Bald than Split Hares" emblazoned across their chests.

  7. Re:I wish they had evaluated it. by Tim+C · · Score: 2, Funny

    t's an EULA, not a license.

    I know what you mean, but you do realise what that L stands for, right?

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  8. Re:Strengthening OSI's credibility by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rather, they communicate privately with the author on the problems they have with the license and resubmissions and so-on.

    Exactly.

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  9. Re:I wish they had evaluated it. by tehcyder · · Score: 2, Funny
    (i)t's an EULA, not a license.
    I know what you mean, but you do realise what that L stands for, right?
    It's Lesbian isn't it?
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