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Microsoft and IBM push OData standardisation

...more well-defined way." Microsoft is contributing seven specification components under its 'Open Specification Promise', while IBM, Microsoft and SAP will also contribute four extension... Read more

25 May, 2012

Microsoft defends validity of open-source move

...struck out at the Software Freedom Law Center's claims that its Open Specification Promise is not as open as it should be. The SFLC... Read more

17 March, 2008 by Suzanne Tindal

Microsoft funds Apache

...released its own open-source licences and put some technology under its Open Specification Promise, which lets open-source programmers use that technology. Also on... Read more

28 July, 2008 by Stephen Shankland

Open-source ID tool awaits Microsoft's go-ahead

...representative said, but declined to say whether the company will expand its open-specification promise. CardSpace's goalsCardSpace, formerly known as InfoCard, is part of... Read more

12 March, 2007 by Joris Evers

Microsoft allows GPL

...its surprise funding of Apache, Microsoft has updated some aspects of its "Open Specification Promise" and - surprise - people are positive about it. Microsoft is sponsoring... Read more

28 July, 2008

Microsoft promises not to sue over Sender ID

...on Monday it is making the "Sender ID Framework" available under its Open Specification Promise programme. That means Microsoft will not sue anyone who creates... Read more

24 October, 2006 by Joris Evers

Microsoft's open source mind shift

...core open source tenets. The software giant on Tuesday published the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, a document that says that Microsoft will not sue anyone... Read more

15 September, 2006 by Martin LaMonica

Microsoft commits another £60K to Apache

...releasing its own open-source licences and putting some technology under the Open Specification Promise, which allows open-source programmers to use the technology. The... Read more

5 November, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

Microsoft: We won't sue over future OOXML versions

...Microsoft has assured coders that its Open Specification Promise — a pledge that it won't sue developers using OOXML... Read more

28 March, 2008 by Suzanne Tindal
Novell chief: We helped Microsoft be more open

Novell chief: We helped Microsoft be more open

The 2006 deal between the two companies played a key part in Microsoft's decision to share more of its information with the rest of the industry, says Ron Hovsepian Read more

19 March, 2008 by Andrew Donoghue
Why you should care about Microsoft's open-source move

Why you should care about Microsoft's open-source move

...better' competing standard." Linux vendor Red Hat challenged Microsoft to extend its Open Specification Promise, a promise not to sue implementors of Microsoft protocols, which... Read more

22 February, 2008 by Peter Judge

Open-source community reacts to Microsoft move

...s most widely used open-source software licence — Microsoft should extend its Open Specification Promise to all the interoperability information that it is announcing today... Read more

22 February, 2008 by Steven Shankland

Microsoft publishes Office specs in OOXML push

...incomplete, Jones announced that Microsoft had made the binaries available under its Open Specification Promise (OSP), a more formal version of the "covenant not to... Read more

18 February, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Developers warned over OOXML patent risk

...to sue", which has since been updated into a document called the Open Specification Promise (OSP). The OSP is essentially a form of licence agreement... Read more

14 February, 2008 by Brett Winterford

Microsoft to standardise HD Photo technology

...And the company has said HD Photo technology is covered by the Open Specification Promise, an agreement under which Microsoft pledges not to assert its... Read more

7 March, 2007 by Stephen Shankland

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