Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Jan 27 15:32:41 CST 2013
It is good to see that Microsoft is officially proclaiming its support of the OSS world. Considering that in 1995-1996, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer vowed to sue the then fledgling Linux into oblivion as an affront to true capitalism and the whole free-enterprise system (IMHO, what an ignorant ass). Fortunately, IBM, stepped in and offered to pay any legal costs and Steve of Microsoft was forced to abandoned that action. Linux of course got the last laugh as now every major company extensively uses versions of Linux and it various products. Microsoft has been supporting the distribution of C# through financial support of Mono, the OSS cross-platform version and promoting CodePlex along with a number of other ventures like the JavaScript framework TypeScript. In summary, it is good to realize they now see the light as it will guarantee Microsoft will be a strong force, even a decade from now. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:06 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Does Microsoft Have the Best App Store for Open SourceDevelopers? This from slashdot... *"Microsoft seems to have been in combat against the GNU GPL throughout the history of free and open source software. But that may be changing. They have recently updated the terms of use for software developers in their Windows Phone app store to allowany OSI-approved open source license - even the GPL. They include extraordinarily broad language that gives the open source license priority over their own license terms, saying: 'If your Application or In-App Product includes FOSS, your license terms may conflict with the limitations set forth in Section 3 of the Standard Application License Terms, but only to the extent required by the FOSS that you use.' Could it be that the most open source friendly app stores<http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-make-app-stores-o pen-source-friendly-211511> will be the ones run my Microsoft?"* -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com