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About as worthless, disfunctional and self defeating as an OSS offering could 
get, don't you think?  ;-)

peace
aaron


On Wednesday 07 April 2004 18:52, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Yeh, I thought this was mighty innaresting. I looked at the project in
> sourceforge.net and sure enough, it's an actual open source thing
> licensed under the Common Public License
&gt; (<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php";>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php</a>), an OSI-approved
&gt; open-source license. This ain't no shared-source bullpucky. It's the
&gt; real thing, giving you rights to modify and republish the code.
&gt; 
&gt; Good on 'em, dudes. I think this is an attempt to be responsive to their
&gt; other big audience, developers. Too bad their ability to make their
&gt; developers happier is limited by their business model.
&gt; 
&gt; -- CHS
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:48, Keith R. Watson wrote:
&gt; &gt; Hi all,
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; Another sysadmin sent me this and I thought the list might like to know 
&gt; &gt; about it considering Microsoft's previous stand on the subject of open 
source.
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5185549.html";>http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5185549.html</a>
&gt; &gt; 
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