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        Microsoft shared source director blogs open source

        Staff | Date: Mar 11, 2005 | Comments: 1


        Jason Matusow, the Director of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft, kicked off an Open Source blog this week. "For years, many in the OSS [open source software] community have asked me to blog to give insight into how we approach OSS and Shared Source," Matusow wrote in his initial posting.

        "I have found the interaction with the open source community to be far more productive than combative."

        Open source, Matusow said, "is many things to many people... [it] presents an interesting development methodology, a convoluted world of source code licenses and a complicated business model." As a development model, he said, open source "is flawed for the production of certain classes of software but compelling for others."

        As for Microsoft's own Shared Source Initiative, the company now has 17 "official offerings that read more than 1,500,000 developers," Matusow reported, with 12 of the 17 having associated derivative rights.

        Visit Matsusow's "Shared Source and more" blog here.

        For a comprehensive introduction and perspective on Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, be sure to read our Share Source special report.


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