The Register

The Free Software Foundation has said new licenses for Microsoft’s pseudo open source program, the Shared Source Initiative, appears to satisfy the four requirements defining Free Software. Professors Larry Lessig and Ronald Mann, meanwhile, welcomed Microsoft’s changes saying they reduce the number of open source licenses in use by the community.

Wow. I did not ever think I would still be alive the day that news would come out. Obviously there seems to be quite a number of fine prints, but it is a step in the right direction.

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