Microsoft License Goes to OSI But Not From Redmond

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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not networking class again!

[crashelite]

i dont like the OSI model :\ it was on every test and i could never remember it. So leaves me at the question, why did they choose OSI as the abbreviation? other then the fact that it is Open Source Initiative but WHY, in calling it Open Source Initiative means that MS will want to get a peice of it dew to the Initiative part. concidering the deffinition is (or one of them) "the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do" or if u really want to get into it "the ability to assess and initiate things independently " meaning they really wouldnt need approval to get an "OSI" approval except from their own self. oh well,...