On 10/4/07, Jonathan Purvis <jon(a)purvis.co.nz> wrote:
Ian McDonald wrote:
Yes, seriously! http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA5Mg
It's not all of it and it's not the greatest license but it's a start.
Can there be any doubt that open source is a better model as Microsoft starts to slowly embrace it??
In the same way a Boa constrictor slowly embraces it's prey? To quote <http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/referencelicense.mspx>:
"Reference use" means use of the software within your company as a reference, in read only form, for the sole purposes of debugging your products, maintaining your products, or enhancing the interoperability of your products with the software, and specifically excludes the right to distribute the software outside of your company.
This seems more like a Trojan Horse to me. Release the source under this license, watch bits of the code sneek into Mono, etc., then strike as soon as it starts to threaten Microsoft.
Regards,
Jon
My personal opinion is that Microsoft is actually starting to move past that with their Port 25 work, their opening up bits of Silverlight etc. However it could be interpreted the other way as well. Time will tell. Ian -- Web1: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Web2: http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz