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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. TCP/IP stack by willCode4Beer.com · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Isn't their tcp/ip layer also from BSD?

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  2. Ummm... BSD TCP Stack along with FTP / Telnet by Eol1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe I am wrong here but didn't M$ orginally use BSD's tcp stack, ftp, and telnet applications. Last I checked BSD was OSS.

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  3. Re:strings ftp.exe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How can a first post be marked Redundant? What fucking idiot used their mod points for this?

  4. Inconceivable by pbailey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doesn't Microsoft think that Open Source undermines the whole capitalist way of doing business in America, and that it will cost the economy billions of dollars that should rightfully go to proprietary software vendors (read Microsoft).

    Oh, the hipocracy!

  5. Re:Not the First by beforewisdom · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was going to mention how this isn't the first time Microsoft has used open source code, but you beat me to mentioned their use of BSD in their NT sockets.