Multiple Licensing Changes Announced Today

Looks like Real is now giving the GPL as an option for the Helix Player, which will now be distributed by both Red Hat and Novell. Not sure how the will impact some of the other open source players. Seems Microsoft also lifted some of its restrictions on the “Shared Source” license for Windows CE. On a side note the whole shared source thing still seems a bit odd to me. While I will admit that I have not looked *too* closely, it seems to me that MSFT has seen what Open Source can do and think that by slapping a license on something it is going to magically improve. They don't seem to understand it's the methodology, freedom and community that make Open Source great, not just the license.
–jeremy