License Details Hint MS Undecided On Suing Users of Its Open Source Net Runtime

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @02:25AM from the full-of-shift dept.

ciaran2014 writes With Microsoft proudly declaring its .NET runtime open source, a colleague and I decided to look at the licensing aspects. One part, the MIT licence, is straightforward, but there's also a patent promise. The first two-thirds of the first sentence seems to announce good news about Microsoft not suing people. Then the conditions begin. It seems Microsoft can't yet bring itself to release something as free software without retaining a patent threat to limit how those freedoms can be exercised. Overall, we found 4 Shifty Details About Microsoft's "Open Source" .NET.

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Shitty Deal? by Njorthbiatr · 2015-03-31 03:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

Yeah, MS spent a copious amount of dollars developing a clean, efficient, and practical framework. They're being generous by not only continuing to develop it with all sorts of modules and internal testing, but expand it to other platforms.
And here you are whining that they won't let you butcher the code they wrote and reuse it for your own purposes like it was your own stuff?
You need to get your head out of your ass. Seriously, I've never heard anything so self-entitled in my life.