What Software Will Microsoft Open-Source Next?

KingFishKingFish
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
Microsoft is gearing up to drop more open-sourced code on SourceForge. There's plenty of speculation as to what will be next.
As Microsoft continues its experiment with open licensing, analysts and members of the community ask what technologies the companies will open source next and when. Industry watchers have speculated on these questions since Microsoft released its Windows Installer XML (WiX) and Windows template-library components under the CPL (Common Public License)—a bona fide open-source license—earlier this year. Microsoft opted to release WiX and the template library via the OSDN (Open Source Development Network) SourceForge repository. And the company is gearing up to do the same again, it seems, possibly by the time the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo kicks off the first week of August, according to a published report.
Source: eWeek

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Wait... MICROSOFT and OPEN SOURCE? Since when did Microsoft give out any of it's code without a Court Order?
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