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Open Source Code Finds Way into Microsoft Release

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-only-the-door-would-swing-both-ways dept.

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."

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  1. strings ftp.exe by cuerty · · Score: 5, Informative

    What about doing a: $ strings ftp.exe BSD Licensed software it's open source.

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  2. uh? by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 5, Informative

    Windows has included open source code for a long time. And not just C:\windows\system32\ftp.exe (run strings to that file), why is then that several microsoft products haven been affected by zlib vulnerabilities, uh? Just read the fu***** license, it's all there.

  3. Re:TCP/IP stack by joebutton · · Score: 5, Informative

    > I believe they obtained a special license to use
    > it how they wish. So it's not an example of
    > stealing code under the BSD license.

    The special license *is* the BSD license. It pretty much says you're allowed to do what you want with the code, including putting it in your evil and bloated OS.

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