[ILUG] email sent to politicians about Mary Hannafin'sdecisionnotto use open source

[Martin List-Petersen]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 06:02, Kae Verens wrote:
> Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> >Quoting Martin List-Petersen (martin at list-petersen.net):
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I do fully agree. People should realise, that this not is a war
> >>against Microsoft, but it is about the freedom of having access to the
> >>source, modifying it if you wish and having more to choose from than
> >>one company (on every part of the operating system).
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Access to source is important, and permission to modify it, but neither
> >is the key attribute of open source.  Ever heard of Microsoft
> >Corporation's "Shared Source Initiative"?  It's a programme to give
> >selected customers and business partners access to Microsoft source code
> >under tight legal restrictions.  
> >  
> >
> I'm not sure if anyone has picked up on this yet, or even if I'm reading 
> it wrong myself, but it seems to me that Microsoft's "Shared Source 
> Initiative" allows people to /view/ the source, but says nothing about 
> changing any glaring errors in the source that are spotted by the viewee.

If you had quoted just a couple of more lines from my mail it would have said:

"Of course ... but it doesn't give you the right to modify and
redistribute."

So basically i responded that allready about the "Microsoft Shared
License".

/Martin