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Windows CE 6 Arrives Complete with Kernel Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has launched the sixth edition of their embedded OS Windows CE and this time has included the full source. From the article: 'Developers can now access shared source code for the Windows CE kernel -- as well as certain device drivers and application-level components -- directly from within the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 distribution package. To do this, they click on a function in the IDE that installs the shared source, and indicate their acceptance of the associated shared source license.'"

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  1. A Trend, I'm Sure by mordors9 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm sure that M$ will be releasing the source code to Vista soon, showing this face of openness is a new corporate stance.

  2. Re:License details? by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not sure which of their three shared source licenses it's released under, but it should be one or more (sometimes they dual-license stuff, as with the Windows Template Library) of the three listed here. I think the article just called them "shared source" so I can't tell from that one anyway.

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