Microsoft to release .Net as Shared Source
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| Microsoft is making source code for the .Net Framework available to
| interested developers under its Shared Source license, the company announced
| on October 3.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=780
Microsoft's Open-Source Trap for Mono
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| If you do, you're nibbling on the cheese of a trap that will eventually snap
| shut on you and kill up your program and quite possibly your job and
| finances.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2191754,00.asp
Microsoft's pseudo-open source: open trap for open-source developers?
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| Far-fetched? Well, not if you look at Microsoft's history. Microsoft is
| playing to win, and it seems to believe the only way to win is if open source
| loses. This is myopic, but the company refuses to get LASIK.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9790795-16.html
Even Miguel is somewhat overwhelmed (he doesn't like the 'shared source' part)
Microsoft Opens up the .NET Class Libraries Source Code
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| The source code is released under a new license they are calling the
| Microsoft Reference License, this is not an open source license.
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http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Oct-03.html
Related:
Is .NET on GNU/Linux a Trojan Horse?
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| There were two basic propositions in my mind on how could they hurt Free
| Software.
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| * 1. Copyright threat? -- If Mono stuff is under a Free Software
| license, once Microsoft or Novell change the licensing terms
| over the Free .NET implementation we can just fork away. This
| is where my trust into Free Software licenses comes into play.
| * 2. Software patents threat? -- Nothing new, there is patent
| saber rattling already and no software is safe from patents anyway.
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http://www.libervis.com/article/is_net_on_gnu_linux_a_trojan_horse
Open Source Evolutionary
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| Some people say the drawback to Mono is the saber rattling from Microsoft
| about patent, and that it doesn't support the latest versions of .NET. What
| is your relationship like with Microsoft these days?
|
| [Miguel:] So, I have two positions, and one is speaking as the person
| managing the Mono team, and then there is another answer speaking as a Novell
| vice president. So from the position of the open source community -- a
| position not attached to Novell -- we as any other software project are aware
| that software patents are a problem. We don't like them. We think they're bad
| for the industry, but we know that we need to abide by that system. So we
| have a very strict policy, that we'll not knowingly introduce patented code
| into the Mono code base. If somebody raises an issue with us about a patent,
| or that we're infringing on their code base, we'll be more than happy to
| either do an investigation to see if there's prior art that will invalidate a
| patent claim, or basically re-implement the same functionality using a
| different approach. Or, if worse comes to worse, removing the code from Mono.
| And I think that's pretty much the same rule that every open source project
| has to use.
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http://reddevnews.com/qandas/article.aspx?editorialsid=115
OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss
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| I read the agreement between Xandros and Microsoft, and one of the excluded
| products was Mono, so Microsoft promises to not sue Xandros over their
| distribution but excluding Mono and a few other products, i.e. they reserve
| the right to sue over Mono. I wonder if this is an interesting preview of on
| what basis they want to fight the free world.
|
| Interestingly, the Novell deal seems to be different, Mono is not excluded
| from the Novell deal. So Microsoft seems to be promising not to sue Novell
| over Mono, but keeps the option open for Xandros. Weird but true.
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http://commandline.org.uk/2007/be-careful-who-you-kiss/
Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
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| [...]
|
| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
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