Microsoft Not So ‘Open’ After All?

“The head of the open-source group that will decide whether to
certify Microsoft Corp.’s ‘shared source’ software licenses as
open-source licenses said that more than half of Redmond’s licenses
appear to automatically fail the group’s rules.

“Michael Tiemann, president of the non-profit Open Source
Initiative, said that provisions in three out of five of
Microsoft’s shared-source licenses that restrict source code to
running only on the Windows operating system would contravene a
fundamental tenet of open-source licenses as laid out by the OSI.
By those rules, code must be free for anyone to view, use, modify
as they see fit…”

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