OSI Calls for Major Revisions to Microsoft Permissive License
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| But the two primary criticisms of the MPL are valid, Tiemann said.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2185919,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Microsoft and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good , Very Bad Week
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| Things are not going well for the colossus of Redmond.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/09/microsoft_and_t.html
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My resolve to treat Microsoft like any another license submitter is being
sorely tested.
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| They haven't stopped at pushing a "standard" that is divisive, technically
| bogus, and an obvious tool of monopoly lock-in; they have resorted to lying,
| ballot-stuffing, committee-packing, and outright bribery to ram it through
| the ISO standardization process in ways that violate ISO's own guidelines
| wholesale.
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| This is not behavior that we, as a community, can live with. Despite my
| previous determination, I find I'm almost ready to recommend that OSI tell
| Microsoft to ram its licenses up one of its own orifices, even if they are
| technically OSD compliant. Because what good is it to conform to the letter
| of OSD if you're raping its spirit?
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http://opensource.org/node/192
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