Blogger claiming "shared source" is approved by OSI

Danese Cooper danese at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 16:22:17 UTC 2007


Copying Bill Hilf on this comment.  Can you guys please keep all the  
CCs intact?

Danese

On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> 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
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> Senior Software Developer
> Linpro AS - www.linpro.no




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