No FOSS please, we’re Microsoft: checking out the .NET source code license
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| Let’s not be wrong: what Microsoft have done is a good thing for developers.
| And, given the Java and Delphi precedent it’s even overdue. Yet, there’s no
| way the license surrounding the release can be labelled a free or open source
| license and it is very disappointing that those seeking to make .NET more
| universal are not being helped in their efforts.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16196/1141/
More shoddy hardware that is XBox360 'quality':
FTC gives Telly-Vole a second chance
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| Last year, the software bully sent in a couple of gadgets it had developed
| with Motorola and Philips which it claimed would do the job. However when the
| FTC got the machines out of the box they found that they didn't work.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/21/ftc-gives-vole-second-chance
Related:
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.
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| 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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