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| Microsoft ‘Shared Source’ Attempts to Hijack FOSS                  |
|   from the thats-what-we-keep-saying dept.                         |
|   posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 12, @10:14 (Microsoft)          |
|   http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/12/1325203 |
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aacc1313 writes “An article that details how [0]Open Source is being
hijacked by Microsoft and the sort via ‘Shared Source’ licenses and how
Open Source licenses have become so much more confusing. From the
article, “The confusion stems from the fact that Microsoft’s ’shared
source’ program includes three proprietary licenses as well, whose names
are similar in some ways to the open-source licenses. Thus, while the
Microsoft Reciprocal License has been approved by OSI, the Microsoft
Limited Reciprocal License (Ms-LRL) is not, because it allows users to
modify and redistribute the software only on the Windows platform” and
“The ’shared source’ program was and is Microsoft’s way of fighting the
open source world, allowing customers to inspect Microsoft source code
without giving those customers the right to modify or redistribute the
code. In other words, “shared source” is not open source, and shouldn’t
be confused with it.”"

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Links:
0. http://ostatic.com/161583-blog/read-the-fine-print-on-open-source-software