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IP: RE: MS and Open Source
From: David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:33:43 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: "Kedrosky, Paul" <paul.kedrosky () commerce ubc ca> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:05:36 To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: RE: MS and Open Source Today I was in Seattle running a panel session at Microsoft's annual (?) Government Leader's Conference, and there was a great deal of "open" source discussion. For example, it was Microsoft-supplied on the list of topics in the panel I ran (on infrastructure and intellectual property). Most interesting, however, was that Microsoft had a document strewn everywhere called "Microsoft Shared Source: Microsoft Source Code Licensing Program". While I haven't read all the way through it, so far it seems a surprisingly clear discussion of the merits of having access to Microsoft's source code. You know what though? No-one cared. I tried to get conversation going on the topic in my session, and I might just as well have been talking about GAAP. Paul Kedrosky Faculty of Commerce University of British Columbia paul.kedrosky () ubc ca 604.822.8894 For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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