Microsoft's Open Source Licenses

[Simon Phipps]

On Nov 3, 2007, at 12:33, Alexander Terekhov wrote:

> Uhmm. It appears that someone is deeply confused or misinformed here
> (a kind of a tiemann effect so to speak :-) ) . The registration
> record of OSI's word/service mark contains a disclaimer:
>
> "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "OPEN SOURCE" and
> "APPROVED LICENSE" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN"

No, not confused, just assuming Microsoft is acting in good faith and  
thus will want to avoid the appearance of "embrace and extend" on the  
Open Source service mark.

S.

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