Open.NET — .NET Libraries Go "Open Source"

An anonymous reader writes "whurley just posted a blog about Microsoft's announcement To Make .NET Libraries available under a crippled 'Open Source' program using their new Microsoft Reference License. The post includes the official pr doc from Microsoft as well as several points about how this really isn't open source. One example: If a developer finds a bug in the code, rather than fixing it themselves and submitting a patch to the community they'll be encouraged to submit feedback via the product feedback center."

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Re:Could be worse

[MightyMartian]

Oh come on. The whole thing is a PR stunt, just like having their little whores show up on /. every once in a while to explain to use how Redmond really does love us. Microsoft would just as soon destroy open source software as adopt it, and anyone who thinks any different is being played for a sucker. They are indeed the enemy of innovation and freedom in the computer world, and they and their little ploys to look "respectable" should be stacked up against their patent threat and the OOXML debacle where they went out of their way to try to undermine an international standards body.

Microsoft is a bad bad bunch of bastards.