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Microsoft Puts Weight Behind Open Source Projects With Web … Washington Post, United States -Oct 16, 2008 Microsoft isn't exactly known for championing open source projects. So it's rather surprising (in a good way) to see the company release something called … Microsoft, OpenLogic Further Open Source EffortseWeek Microsoft is NOT distributing open source Drupal, osCommerce …InfoWorld Microsoft to be biggest Open Source distributorIT Examiner Forbes - SitePoint all 14 news articles

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) doesn’t like Microsoft, doesn’t like software patents, it especially doesn’t like Microsoft’s patents, and it doesn’t trust the two of them in the same room together. It’s convinced that Microsoft is eventually going to sue any open source developer who uses Mono, the Novell-supported open source version of Microsoft’s .NET widgetry, or who writes open source programs in C#, the Microsoft development language. It’s warning off developers now because Microsoft has added both C# and Mono – or rather the ECMA 334 and 335 standards that embrace them – to its two-year-old irrevocable, legally binding Community Promise not to sue. (See www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx.) read more

Microsoft beating Mozilla…in open-source licensing - CNET News

Microsoft beating Mozilla...in open-source licensingCNET News, CAby Matt Asay The MS-PL is now used by 1.02 percent of open-source projects. This is impressive given that it was only approved by the Open Source Initiative some two years ago. The Mozilla Public License (MPL), by contrast, has been around for many ...Microsoft open-source license finds (some) loveRegisterall 2 news articles

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After a lull where few new open-source vendors were signing patent-protection deals with Microsoft, the pace has begun to pick up again. On August 26, Tuxera Ltd anounced it has signed an intellectual-property (IP) licensing agreement with Microsoft; joined Microsoft's exFAT driver-licensing program; and joined the Microsoft Interop Vendor Alliance. Tuxera, based in Helsinki, Finland, was founded by the NTFS-3G open-source project. As a result of the deal, Tuxera is claiming to be the first independent software vendors to offer exFAT drivers. From Tuxera's press release: "Tuxera has now access to the exFAT specifications, Microsoft s source code implementation of exFAT, and testing and verification tools. Tuxera exFAT for Embedded Sytems will be first available for Linux." Tuxera CEO Mikko Valimaki added that Tuxera "cannot ...

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