Combat license proliferation by creating more licenses!
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| Author | Content |
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| tuxchick Oct 19, 2005 9:10 PM EDT |
"Microsoft has announced three new licence templates for its Shared Source Initiative that it says should help combat the problem of licence proliferation in the open source developer community." Mmmkaaay. On the face of it, these new licenses don't sound too bad. Soooo...what's the catch? Which hand holds the knife? Even if the licenses have some sekkrit gotcha, this is significant- no one has ever made microshaft revise their software licensing before. |
| PaulFerris Oct 20, 2005 1:30 AM EDT |
Tuxxy, it's simple. They all end with a single line;Quoting: Copyright (C) 2005 Microsoft Corp, all rights reversed. |
| tuxchick Oct 20, 2005 10:25 AM EDT |
Paulie, you did it again- yet another keyboard sacrificed to a coffee-loaded guffaw. |
| jimf Oct 20, 2005 2:22 PM EDT |
MS is obviously switching to its hardware strategy now. If they get us all laughing hard enough, the sale of keyboards will skyrocket. |
| tadelste Oct 20, 2005 3:30 PM EDT |
jimf: people have actually accused Microsoft of being a good company in the past. So. There you have it. |
| jimf Oct 20, 2005 4:27 PM EDT |
Well, the accused should always be considered Innocent until the charge is proven tadelste :). |
| dinotrac Oct 20, 2005 7:22 PM EDT |
jimf - That depends on whether the accused is going out with my daughter. |
| jimf Oct 20, 2005 9:34 PM EDT |
An entirely different issue dinotrack... In that case linch rules apply :D. |
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