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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. Wait a minute by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't microsoft always saying that open-source software is OBVIOUSLY inferior?

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    1. Re:Wait a minute by techno-vampire · · Score: 5, Insightful
      I'll be the first to admit that in practice, it fails horribly due to human nature, but as a concept, it's great.

      It fails horribly in practice, and therefore is a bad theory.

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  3. 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.

  4. Re:In other news... by someguy456 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In addition, minesweeper has been replaced with a full version of 3dlab's Duke Nukem Forever...

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  5. MPI is how MS Implemented... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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.

  6. Open source by Ahzraei · · Score: 5, Funny

    Open source? Interesting innovation on microsoft's part ... maybe they should patent it.

  7. The Complete Cluster Edition? by dtungsten · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, at least they're being honest.

  8. 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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