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Windows CE Device Emulator Goes Shared Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the giving-something-back-not-always-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Microsoft has released their device emulator for Windows CE under a shared source license making it available to experimentation and teaching. From the article: 'The Device Emulator can be built as a standalone Windows application, or as the default emulator within Visual Studio 2005 running under the Device Emulator Manager, according to Microsoft. A 473 KB compressed file containing the Device Emulator shared source code is available for download' on the Microsoft site."

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  1. Shared Source == SCO Replacement by mazphil57 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With the SCO lawsuit dying out, it looks like MSFT needs new ways to entangle FOSS. Hence, firing execs using pure FUD against Linux, and putting on a friendly face on "open interfaces" and placing more source code we're not allowed to use out there. There is a certain class of cretin that will incorporate "shared source" code into an OSS project. The legal departments of large corporations are already terrified of FOSS (from the SCO lawsuit) and will require indemnification and eventually all OSS projects will have to go through rigorous audits to show they contain no code from tainted MSFT source releases. Thanks MSFT, for adding massive code auditing overhead to OSS development!