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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RE: First open source kernel from Microsoft!
by Rahul on Tue 18th Nov 2008 12:25
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Non commercial use restrictions are incompatible with open source
http://opensource.org/docs/osd
RE[2]: First open source kernel from Microsoft!
by Thom_Holwerda on Tue 18th Nov 2008 12:27
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RE[2]: First open source kernel from Microsoft!
by klimg on Tue 18th Nov 2008 15:56
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RE: First open source kernel from Microsoft!
by TommyCarlier on Tue 18th Nov 2008 12:49
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It's not open source, but shared source. It's a research project with a non-commercial academic license.
Microsoft does use open source licenses for other projects, like the AJAX Control Toolkit and the Silverlight Toolkit. For a list of Microsoft open source projects on CodePlex (its open source project community), go to http://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/Microsoft
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2006-02-10
Rejoice :-)