'Shared Source' .NET Overview

Lisa writes: "As part of Microsoft's Shared Source initiative, the company announced Tuesday the public availability of more than 1 million lines of Windows and Microsoft .NET source code--aimed primarily at universities. I guess Microsoft hopes to slow down academic support for the open-source Linux OS. Don't know why they expect this to work, but Brian Jepson has a nice overview of this shared source release."

Comments

Re:Poisoning the mindspace

[zcat_NZ]

Exactly what I was going to say, but you beat me too it.

The SAMBA people have already had trouble in this area and advise ppl not to look at any of MS's shared-source code. What worries me is that shared source will be presented as 'example' code to be worked on in universities, and an entire generation of programmers will be forced to study it or not graduate. That's one hell of a wedge they can use against any Windows-interoperability OSS project.