[Gllug] Is Microsoft doing Open Source?

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:46:28AM +0000, Ian Baillie wrote:
> Has anyone seen this? Not sure, but might be of interest to some. Its  
> a non-Windows based operating system from Microsoft. Maybe they are  
> thinking of rewriting from scratch.
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1239&tag=nl.e550
> 
> http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/

This is not 'open source'.  Microsoft have been trying to confuse
people by calling it that, but the license clearly states it's for
academic, non-commercial use only:

  http://www.codeplex.com/singularity/license

Compare to the Debian Social Contract:

  http://www.debian.org/social_contract

    "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups"
    "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor"

or the open source definition (http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd).

At worst, just reading this code could mean that any contributions you
make to Linux would be tainted, leaving yourself and maybe even Linux
at risk.

Please don't help Microsoft to confuse people on this issue.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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