Blogger claiming "shared source" is approved by OSI

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at linpro.no
Thu Oct 18 15:39:33 UTC 2007


Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> writes:
> http://blogs.technet.com/openchoice/archive/2007/10/17/shared-source-aprovado-pela-open-source-initiative.aspx
>
> The real motivation for the two "open source" licenses Microsoft got
> through OSI has just came up.
>
> As many feared, they are trying to further dillute the "open source"
> term by now claiming "shared source" to have been approved by OSI.

Uh, no.  Look closer.  Some random blogger claimed that Shared Source
was approved by the OSI; Microsoft hasn't said anything (yet).

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
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