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Microsoft Seeks Open Source Certification

Posted by kdawson on from the guess-who's-climbing-into-the-bed dept.

eldavojohn writes "Microsoft is applying for OSI certification for its Shared Source Initiative. The move is described in a blog post by an MS OSS lab worker: 'Today, we reached another milestone with the decision to submit our open licenses to the OSI approval process, which, if the licenses are approved, should give the community additional confidence that the code we're sharing is truly Open Source. I believe that the same voices that have been calling for Microsoft products to better interoperate with open source products would voice their approval should the Open Source Initiative itself open up to more of the IT industry.' According to PC World, reaction from the community has been mostly positive."

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  1. Why apologize? by iknownuttin · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I apologize for submitting a dupe.

    Are you an editor?

    If not, I don't see any reason for you to apologize. Even if you are, it's not like you're duping an article within a couple of days or less.

    --
    I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
  2. Open Sores by PenGun · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh yeah baby that free software stuff is so last century

  3. FOSSies desperately fear MSOSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is another fearful battle for the FOSSies, in their war against choice. Why do I say FOSSies fight choice? Look at their activities: they slam businesses which choose MS Office, they slam businesses and websites which create their pages for IE7 or use WMV formats, and of course they are desperate to stop anyone from using Windows... but most FOSSies can't even hit that level of delusion to try getting businesses to use Windows on the desktop (especially since the City of Munich has been stuck in a high profile Lunix total conversion quagmire since 2002).

    So now it seems the FOSSies are even losing control of OSS- MS is coming out with their business-friendly license which doesn't lock companies in to purely FOSSie-approved apps. FOSSies only like choice when you choose the apps and platforms they dictate... so you can have any OS as long as it's Lunix (or OS X), you can have any web browser as long as it's Firefox (or Safari), and you can have any media format so long as it's Quicktime (kind of strange how they play favorites with the Apple monopoly).

    The FOSSie denial of reality, and the fact that MS custom tailors their applications for business, is why MS will always win and FOSSies will always lose.