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suggestionsuggestionPosted Nov 21, 2007 14:21 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: suggestion by hummassa Parent article: Fingerprint recognition using fprint
I think 'shared source' is an even more confusing term than 'closed source', perhaps deliberately confusing, coined by Microsoft in an attempt to sound close enough to open source and muddy the waters.
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suggestion Posted Nov 21, 2007 16:10 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] While Microsoft's term is confusing, they certainly didn't invent the "source is available to licensees" concept, which is practically as old as computing.
suggestion Posted Nov 22, 2007 8:51 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
I usually use 'source available', which has some usage in the industry where source is
provided to customers but cannot be redistributed, instead of 'shared source' which is a
marketing term invented by Microsoft. F/OSS ('open source') and closed source are quite clear
as the other key terms.
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