First they partner with Novell. Then they openly publish all their protocol specifications, putting them up there on the web right out there in front of ESR and everybody. Now the Microsoft Operations Framework team announces that, of all the unholy open ideas out there, they have decided to release their MOF 4.0 content under a Creative Commons Attribution license, allowing the unwashed masses to mix, match, and republish the documentation internally to their own infernal ends.

I applaud the recognition of the MOF team that their guidance is best used when adapted to particular circumstances existing in a business; I have yet to see wholesale, arbitrary adoption of any such management standard achieve success, and serving them up a la carte seems to be de rigeur. So far, I haven't heard any wailing or gnashing of teeth over the existing remixing of materials, but it's thoughtful of the MOF team to both make it officially acceptable and to encourage the approach at the same time.