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'Shared Source' .NET Overview

Posted by timothy on from the fwiw dept.

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."

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  1. Don't look or you'll be tainted! by SteveX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "One of the key considerations that went into the design of the Rotor's shared source license is that a programmer should be able to look at the Rotor source without becoming tainted."

    So much for that particular conspiracy theory.

    - Steve