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."

Comments

Hardly news, more like "olds"

[Anonymous Coward]

poor old Granddad, I laughed at all his words
I thought he was a bitter man
he spoke of women's ways
they'll trap you when they use you
before you even now
for love is blind and you're far to kind
don't ever let it show

I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was stronger

the can-can such a pretty show
will steal your heart away
but backstage back on earth again
the dressing rooms are grey
they come on strong and it ain't too long
for they make you feel a man
but love is blind and you soon will find
you're just a boy again

when you want her lips, you get her cheek
makes you wonder where you are
if you want some more then she's fast asleep
leaves you twinkling with the stars
poor young grandson there's nothing I can say
you'll have to learn, just like me
and that's the hardest way

ooh la la
ooh la la, la la, yeah

I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was stronger

Firefox aliens!?

[Anonymous Coward]

funny... http://qainsight.net/2006/08/23/Death+Toll+Rises+D ue+To+FireFox.aspx

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,...