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To Microsoft, Open Source means "Windows Encumbered"
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| One of the most interesting things to happen
| in the past couple of years, is Microsoft's
| embrace of Open Source. This means different
| things to various people I've spoken with at
| Microsoft. Some seem genuinely sincere. Some
| seem less so. What hasn't changed is
| Microsoft's behavior to the Open Source
| community at large.
|
| * They have not retracted their patent
| FUD against Linux.
| * They (a founding member of the BSA) did
| not speak out against the BSA/IIPA's
| attempt to have the US government equate
| Open Source with piracy and as anti-
| capitalist.
| * They continue to attack, with legal
| action or threats, any open source that
| competes with any of their core products.
| * They continue to hijack standards
| boards with "standards" that are
| encumbered by patent or platform
| constraints.
|
| Microsoft's version of Open Source Software
| (MSOSS) means software licensed under an Open
| Source License which is encumbered with a
| dependency on SharePoint, Microsoft Office,
| Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Windows
| (Azure or classic). This underscores
| something critical that we have all learned
| over the past few years while on our journey
| towards freer technology. That is that Open
| Source licenses are NOT enough to ensure
| (corporate or consumer) end-user empowerment.
| We also need Open Standards and Open Data.
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http://opensource.org/Microsoft-Open-Source
Recent:
Former Sun open source officer joins OSI board
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| Simon Phipps, who was chief open source
| officer at Sun Microsystems for the past
| five years, has become a member of the
| Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of
| directors.
|
| In an email response to questions
| Thursday, Phipps said he was not offered a
| position at Oracle, which closed its
| acquisition of Sun in January. Phipps
| worked nearly 10 years at the now-defunct
| company.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/former-sun-open-source-officer-joins-osi-board-109
Simon Phipps elected as OSI director
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| The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has
| elected Simon Phipps to the board of
| directors; Phipps recently left Oracle
| after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source
| Officer. He will take up his new position
| on the OSI board from April 1st. In a blog
| posting confirming the appointment, Phipps
| says he is "honoured and delighted" to take
| up the position on the board of an
| organisation which "still plays a very
| important and relevant role in the world of
| software freedom".
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Simon-Phipps-elected-as-OSI-director-952396.html
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