ONLamp: Perspectives on the Shared Source Initiative

"Nat Torkington and I were discussing Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative not long ago. I left Microsoft in early December and had spent the last three years directly involved in various aspects of Shared Source work. The more we discussed his questions, the more we realized others probably shared the same questions. This article came from that realization.

"Microsoft began pushing the idea of 'shared source' a few years ago as a way to talk about source code sharing exercises they continue to develop in the face of open source software practices..."

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