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 {.NET || Java} Course Author & Instructor, DevelopMentor (http://www.develop.com) http://www.javageeks.com/tneward http://www.clrgeeks.com/tneward ----- 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 > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better >