• The Shared Source Initiative (SSI) is a source-available software licensing scheme launched by Microsoft in May 2001. The program includes a spectrum of...
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  • from Mega Ltd. Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, launched in May 2001, comprises 5 licenses, 2 of which are open-source and 3 of which are restricted...
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    Open-source software security Open-source video game All articles with titles containing "Open source" Proprietary software Shared Source Initiative Timeline...
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    part of Microsoft's broader Shared Source Initiative which provides source code access for some products. The Reference Source License (Ms-RSL) and Limited...
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    The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a California public benefit corporation "actively involved in Open Source community-building, education, and public...
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    Free software (redirect from Free source)
    the Open Source Initiative both publish lists of licenses that they find to comply with their own definitions of free software and open-source software...
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  • communication) Shared resource Shared read lock Shared Source Initiative Shared web hosting service Shared space, in civil engineering Shared lane marking Shared Zone...
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  • In October 2006, Castle announced a source sharing license plan for elements of OS 5. This Shared Source Initiative (SSI) is managed by RISC OS Open Ltd...
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  • WiX (category Free and open-source software)
    portal List of installation software Shared Source Initiative Lawson, Stephen (6 April 2004). "Microsoft goes open source with WiX tool". Computerworld. Retrieved...
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  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated CatB) is an essay, and later a book, by Eric...
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  • CrowdStrike update that caused 8.5 million Windows PCs to crash. Part of that initiative is to rewrite parts of Windows in Rust, a memory-safe language. All Windows...
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    RISC OS after Acorn's demise. The source code publication was initially facilitated by a shared source initiative (SSI) between ROOL and Castle Technology...
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  • the first release of Windows built on Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative and emphasized security with the introduction of many new security and...
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  • Halloween documents (category History of free and open-source software)
    describing reactions to Microsoft's shared-source program. Eric Raymond provides commentary suggesting ways that the open-source community can promote itself...
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    Open-source Judaism is a name given to initiatives within the Jewish community employing open content and open-source licensing strategies for collaboratively...
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  • double-digit market share in a few countries, such as Armenia, where it continues to be used on about 75% of Windows PCs. On September 23, 2020, source code for...
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  • Windows 11 (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
    versatile new open-source terminal". ZDNet. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020. "Microsoft is open-sourcing Windows Calculator...
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  • The Shared Values Initiative was a public relations campaign created by the U.S. State Department and directed by Charlotte Beers, a former Madison Avenue...
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  • as offered by the National Intelligence University Microsoft Shared Source Initiative Military Service for Security and Intelligence, Macedonia Mont...
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    Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data, previously the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data, is a global science initiative established...
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  • identifiers as well as some facility to store identity data. Shared Source Initiative, a source-available software licensing scheme by Microsoft Simple Sensor...
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  • Windows Server 2003 (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
    and command-line tools, with the improvements being part of Microsoft's initiative to bring a complete command shell to the next version of Windows. Other...
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    changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The Open Source Definition is used by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to determine whether...
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    1, was initially released on March 4, 2008, being released under a shared source license allowing academic non-commercial use and available from CodePlex...
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  • companies were being shared among these manufacturers, without any exchange of money (or lawsuits). Early instances of the free sharing of source code include...
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  • as part of Microsoft's Shared Source initiative. This license is not OSI-approved but the authors claim it meets the open-source definition. With the 2...
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    Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...
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  • available under shared source agreements. Developers have the freedom to modify down to the kernel level, without the need to share their changes with...
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  • tool is used for building the platform (BSPĀ + Kernel), device drivers (shared source or custom made) and also the apps. This is a one stop environment to...
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  • with fundamental changes in the structure of the client backups and the shared folders, there is no clear method for migrating from the previous version...
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