Microsoft boo-boo open source can you get it?


	Microsoft boo-boo open source can you get it?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f2fded5d-48d2-412f-b9bf-c4cbcc898e9d/F3A29453-D98A-4AB7-B43D-9F19C53B5DDD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2526" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2526" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.zdnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2526"><H1><A title="Permanent Link to How much will Microsoft’s Sandcastle boo-boo hurt?" rel="bookmark" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2526">How much will Microsoft’s Sandcastle boo-boo hurt?</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2526"><P><A title="McCain speech in Kenner June 2 2008" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?attachment_id=2525" rel="attachment wp-att-2525"><IMG align="right" title="McCain speech in Kenner June 2 2008" alt="McCain speech in Kenner June 2 2008" src="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/images/mccain_kenner-green-background.jpg" /></A>Microsoft admits<A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1433"> it goofed</A>. Posting a project under an open source license without including the code <A href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9962666-16.html">is bad form</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2526"><P>The question is how much this might hurt Microsot. In the open source community it’s already as popular as George W. Bush at an Obama rally. How much worse can things get?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2526"><P>There remain a large cohort of programmers, partners, and simple fans who will stay with Microsoft and what it chooses to call open source no matter what. You might think of it as the Republican Party of open source.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2526"><P>But, sheesh. This went over like John McCain’s green screen speech. So maybe Microsoft needs to believe as Sen. McCain does, that there will be better days.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2526"><P>Will there? Can Microsoft mend its open source fences?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F3A29453-D98A-4AB7-B43D-9F19C53B5DDD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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