internetnews.com: Jason Matusow, Microsoft Shared Source Initiative

"Q: One of the things you talk about in your blog is the concept of open. You say that it means different things to different people. Do you think the OSI (Open Source Initiative) has the credibility to certify what is open and what isn't?

"There's a great deal of discussion within the open source community on semantics, about what is open, what is free and what is shared. For me, within the concept of Shared Source, our motivation has primarily been to provide source code for technologies that address customer concerns..."

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