Microsoft Capitulates to the OSI, Gets Horse-Whipped for Its Troubles | Linux Today

Microsoft Capitulates to the OSI, Gets Horse-Whipped for Its Troubles

Written By
MA
Matt Asay
Aug 21, 2007

“I really, really don’t understand this. I understand that
Microsoft has a history of aggression against open source, as Chris
DiBona wrote recently on the Open Source Initiative’s (OSI)
license-discuss email list. I compete with Microsoft and have for
many years. I get that Microsoft has been bad.

“But discrimination is explicitly against the OSI’s Open Source
Definition, as Bill Hilf noted in responding to criticism from
Google’s Chris DiBona on the email thread…”

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Matt Asay

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