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Microsoft submits two open licenses for review, what's it mean?
Microsoft recently submitted two open source compatible licenses to the OSI for review which, if approved, could lend some credibility to Microsoft's tiny internal open movement. For a company that has long opposed open source in almost all of its forms, what does this mean and, where are the Redmond kids headed?The BBC weighs in with commentary from columnist Bill Thompson, "Those who see only the machinations of a corporation intent on damaging free and open source software will therefore imagine this latest move as part of a complex game of corporate chess." Thompson believes that a Microsoft open license, approved by the OSI could shift the way we think about open source.
Tending to be on the side of the argument which believes everything is a chess game, we're skeptical.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Mark said 10:28PM on 7-31-2007
You also tend to be the "let's skewer Microsoft and roast 'em over a slow fire" blog, so excuse me if I'm skeptical of your journalism.
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sean said 1:06PM on 8-01-2007
well said.
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