Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Feb 2008 20:39 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Does Microsoft have an open-source strategy - beyond finding new ways to thwart Linux and other non-proprietary wares? Sam Ramji, Microsoft's Director of Platform Technology Strategy and the company's Open Source Software Lab, says it does. I met with Ramji last week when he was passing through New York on his way to Europe, and had a chance to ask him to provide a succinct definition of what Microsoft means when it refers to its own 'open-source strategy'."
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RE[2]: If they were really after FOSS...
by DrillSgt on Sat 2nd Feb 2008 00:57
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"Microsoft's definition of "open source" is far closer to mySQL's definition than the one you're proposing; that is, corporate customers can see the code, but that's about it."
Everyone can see the code to MySQL.
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#source
Where did you get the idea you couldn't? Microsoft will only show the code to paying corporate customers, where anyone can get the mySQL code. Big difference don't you think?
RE[3]: If they were really after FOSS...
by tomcat on Sat 2nd Feb 2008 01:23
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Member since:2006-01-06
Where did you get the idea you couldn't? Microsoft will only show the code to paying corporate customers, where anyone can get the mySQL code. Big difference don't you think?
No, wrong. There are two editions of mySQL: the Enterprise Server and the Community Server. Source code for the Community Server (as the name implies) is available to everyone, but source code to the Enterprise Server is available only to paying customers.
See http://www.betanews.com/article/print/MySQL_to_Distribute_Commercia...
That's like Microsoft handing out source code for its Jet database engine but reserving the source code for SQL Server for paying customers. Same basic premise.
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Microsoft's definition of "open source" is far closer to mySQL's definition than the one you're proposing; that is, corporate customers can see the code, but that's about it.
Because the definition of "open source" is larger than just those licenses.