Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 18th Aug 2007 20:13 UTC
GNU, GPL, Open Source The OSI License-Discuss mailing list has been ablaze for the past few days since Microsoft submitted its Permissive License to the OSI for official open source license approval. Jon Rosenberg, source program director for Microsoft, posted, "Microsoft believes that this license provides unique value to the open source community by delivering simplicity, brevity, and permissive terms combined with intellectual property protection."
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Re: Microsoft's licensing
by mind!dagger on Sun 19th Aug 2007 16:18 UTC
mind!dagger
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2007-06-26

I believe that Bill and his team of millionaires have no concept of freedom of the market. Their model is based on total market domination not competition.