OSI evacuation begins over 'badgeware' license
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| It took no more than five minutes for a controversy to emerge once the Open
| Source Initiative (OSI) revealed that it had rushed a new attribution-style
| license through for approval.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/27/osi_fury_badgerware/
Microsoft might try to do something similar. Divide and conquer the OSI, in a
similar fashion to what they did with Novell. Just a little theory.
Also in the news:
Microsoft Inches Closer to Open Source
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| On the software side, Microsoft today announced a partnership with open
| source solution vendor SpikeSource to eventually certify all of SpikeSource's
| SpikeIgnited solutions on the Microsoft Windows platform.
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| The move could make dozens of popular open source solutions available to
| Windows users in a fully supported manner. SpikeSource solutions include the
| gambit of content management, CRM and collaboration solutions. The first
| SpikeIgnited solution being made Windows-certified is the Drupal content
| management solution. Throughout the second half of 2007, SpikeSource plans on
| rolling out additional offerings.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3691071
They try to hijack projects /away/ from Linux.
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