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Open Source Code Finds Way into Microsoft Release
linumax tells us eWeek is reporting that Microsoft, for the first time, has included open source code in the release of one of their products. The Complete Cluster Edition of Windows Server 2003 will be including the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. From the article: "MPI is key middleware that was designed by a consortia of all the supercomputing vendors in the 1990s to allow the easy portability of code. It abstracts away things like low-latency interconnect, and our focus is making it super easy for ISVs to move their code."
Isn't microsoft always saying that open-source software is OBVIOUSLY inferior?
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A Computer Science student's views on technology.
...2003's HDBSOD or Highly-Distributed Blue Screen of Death.
With previous cluster technologies, when a single server would blue screen, the cluster remained online, but with HDBSOD, the entire cluster blue screens, ensuring timely, highly-reliable, redundant creation of crash dumps.
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Open source? Interesting innovation on microsoft's part ... maybe they should patent it.
Well, at least they're being honest.
You might want to write to the University of Chicago to tell them that their code was stolen. Presumably they are wondering where all their copies went, and now that the culprit has been identified they will want them back!
It can say something that's already in the summary or the article; or that has been recently posted elsewhere (i.e., if someone came up with a joke about Apple and started posting it in every Apple-related story, it'd be fair to mark it redundant). In this case, however, the mods are most likely smoking crack.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Finally Microsoft admits it -- Windows has Open Sores.
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
Well my Fedora desktop has a flying pig screensaver. So I guess you're right :)
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That the "most advanced" operating system in the world uses 22 year old code?