Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Nov 2008 06:45 UTC, submitted by pablo_marx
Microsoft has released an initial release of version 2.0 of the Singularity operating system (research development kit, as it likes to call it). Singularity is a microkernel research operating system, where the kernel, drivers, and applications are all written in managed code. Singularity is released under a shared source academic license, and you can do whatever you want with it, except making money (simply put).
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Correction: Whatever you do with your code must remain available to everyone, not just us. You would have thought people would have grokked this by now. Apparently not.
The reason why Microsoft has non-commercial restrictions is two-fold:
1. They want to make it as difficult as possible for you to get their code running and integrated with other platforms (our platform only please), and even if you do, it can only be an academic exercise.
2. They don't want you using their code to create something new that will ultimately compete with software and products they're producing.
It kind of negates the point of open source software really, since there is little if any motivation for people to put code in as all you'll be doing is working for Microsoft for free.
If you think these two positions are comparable then you have a somewhat warped view of the reality of the situation.
Edited 2008-11-18 12:45 UTC