In Bill Hilf's keynote at Oscon today, he announced that Microsoft will submit it's shared source licenses to the OSI for approval. This includes the Microsoft Permissive License, Community License and Reference License. Although a bit late to the party, I think this is still a good step on Microsoft's part. It shows that they appreciate there's a community outside of Microsoft and they are adapting their busine In Bill Hilf‘s keynote at Oscon today, he announced that Microsoft will submit it’s shared source licenses to the OSI for approval. This includes the Microsoft Permissive License, Community License and Reference License. Although a bit late to the party, I think this is still a good step on Microsoft’s part. It shows that they appreciate there’s a community outside of Microsoft and they are adapting their business practices and licensing in order to be successful there. That to me is highly significant. More coverage here at eWeek by ace reporter Darryl Taft who was on hand and at Internet News by Sean Michael Kerner.I’ll write about the rest of Bill Hilf’s presentation on Microsoft’s open source efforts next week. But this was too good to pass up. Open Source