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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. Dupe by casings · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/0 7/17/1838240

    was posted by timothy....

  2. Re:Not bad... by badfish99 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, the license doesn't seem to allow you to use it at all, unless you happen to be attending a school or university. For example, you can't use it if you are just a hobbyist.

    Of course this fits in with Bill Gates' known views that hobbyists should pay for commercial software

    The strategy is to get them hooked at school, and then make them pay for the rest of their lives.

  3. wait, walsoft? micromart? what? by Xtifr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Walmart's trying to emulate Open Source? No, wait, I mean, Microsoft's trying to emulate MySpace? Sorry, too many articles about too many vile scumbags pretending to be cool in too short a period of time. I'm getting them all mixed up. :)

  4. "OK, listen up,line forms on the left" by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    "All you guys who want to be Windows CE "shared source" developers, line up over here..."

    *crickets*

    --
    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  5. Enough for anybody! by Davus · · Score: 4, Funny
    From boards/cominterface.cpp:
    ASSERT(FALSE); // string ought to fit
    I hear 640K crickets chirping.
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    The above is most likely humour. Slashdot foot icon goes here.
  6. 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!