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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. This might be fun, but by Perdo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There is always a but... Soap keeps crashing off my desktop. I can look but not edit. I guess they are just doing what we do, ask for help when our programs are buggy and need the help of the community.

    But frankly, if Microsoft needs my help, they better ask with their dollars.

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