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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. Re:Wait a minute by deaddrunk · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you're basically saying that the people who make stuff do no valuable work at all?

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  2. Re:first time? by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft is rumoured to have used BSD's stack

    It's not a rumor, you can see the copyright notice in some of the utilities.

    MS uses at a minimum: libpng, zlib, BSD-derived TCP/IP, GPL utils in SFU, Ogg..

    Probably more.

    This isn't just rumors, these are confirmed things. The reporter that wrote this story really dropped the ball.

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