Um..... This seems a BIT over the top, but maybe that's just me. And I'm not
sure it answered the question, to boot.

Short answer: Shared Source is yet another license model for software whose
source code you can look at; it's a parallel to the BSD license, or the
Apache license.
Long answer: Go read the Microsoft Shared Source License agreement for full
details. :-)

Ted Neward
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(http://www.develop.com)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paolo Molaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Shared Source


> On 06/22/02 Sobolev Sergei wrote:
> > Could you please explain me what difference between "Open Source" and
> > "Shared Source"?
>
> Shared Source is:
> "Look but don't touch. Touch but don't taste. Taste but don't swallow.
> And while you're jumping on one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's
> laughing his sick f***ing *ss off. He's a tight*ss. He's a sadist. He's
> an absentee-landlord!"
>
> Free software is the full monty!
>
> Open Source is the same, you just can't tell your boss about it.
>
> lupus
>
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