Re: [ossig] Microsoft going round promoting .net

[Nan Phin <nplee@tm.net.my>]

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Imran William Smith wrote:

> MS did a presentation here (Mimos) today on .NET, hoping
> to target the technology research people within Mimos.
>
> They are keen to give out CD's with .NET shared source
> on them, inviting us to duplicate them, give them out,
> have a good browse through the information and code.  Only
> when I quizzed them about the licensing agreement did they
> admit that there was a license agreement, but glossed
> over it somewhat with 'it's a few pages of legal
> stuff, actually I didn't read it fully myself'.  The guy
> presenting (Dr. Wong Chek Yoon, MicroSoft Visiting Fellow,
> Multimedia University) was kind enough to email me
> the full license agreement afterwards.
>
> The key phrase is probably:
>
> "You may use any information in intangible form that you remember after
> accessing the Software.  However, this right does not grant you a
> license to any of Microsoft's copyrights or patents for anything you
> might create using such information."
>
> The license is somewhat GPL-like - you can modify and
> redistribute but only under the terms of the original license,
> and if you try to sue anyone for patent infringement, the license
> automatically ends.
>
> It looks to me like
> MS is actively pushing sharedsource code at developers.
> They're trying to get mindset in academic world, saying
> 'this source code will help you do technology research'.
> They spin it as 'help the world of technology move forward',
> rather than 'help the world of *Microsoft* technology
> move forward'.
>
> How best to counter?  Just keep the open source PR
> machine rolling?
>
> Imran
>
> --
> Imran William Smith
> Project Manager, Open Source Development,
> Mimos Berhad, Malaysia
>
> Asian Open Source Centre : http://www.asiaosc.org
> Mimos open source        : http://opensource.mimos.my
>
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