On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Mohit Singhgmohitsingh@gmail.com wrote:

I have said it earlier and this is my second reminder that the Redmond Codelifter has started 'open source' and can very well be on this mailing list with full right to be here! PLEASE draft a policy to keep it out or stop bashing it!

"Over the years, Microsoft statements toward open-source software have ranged from derision and threats to mollification and even cautious praise.

Microsoft's Thursday announcement of a significantly more accommodating approach to open-source programmers is just the latest refinement of the company's ambivalence. At the same time that Microsoft's new arrangement opens up previously secret specifications and protocols for use in open-source software, it also insists that companies planning on distributing or using that software need a patent license." Story at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9876187-39.html

So long as it promotes or reproduces proprietary, non-free licenses, many of us should refresh our pledge to fight against the corporate. If Open Source/Free Software champions have succeeded in impressing upon the corporate to work in favour of Free Software or Open Source, we would be doing them a disservice by preferring to keep quiet !!

CK Raju