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Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets

Posted by Zonk on from the super-seekrit-secrets dept.

OrochimaruVoldemort writes "In an unexpected move, Microsoft has disclosed 14,000 pages of coding secrets. According to The Register: 'This is Microsoft's latest effort to satisfy anti-trust concerns of the European Union, which is possibly a tougher adversary for the company than Google.' The article mentioned that this will be done in three phases. 'Between now and June it will garner feedback from the developer community. Then, at the end of June, Microsoft will publish the final versions of technical documentation — along with definitive patent licensing terms.' Lets just hope those terms are pro open source."

3 of 217 comments (clear)

  1. bring on the virii by seanadams.com · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unlike existing open source projects, these protocols/code/APIs have never been scrutinized by independent security experts. I'll bet this reveals hundreds of new attack vectors.

  2. Re:Ummmm, no by Airconditioning · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wasn't the JPEG vulnerability discovered after the source code leak?

  3. You stole our code! by Auraiken · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm starting to think that this looks a whole lot like the 'we know there is source code from windows in your apps' thing. It might look good for MS to the EU, but it also looks extremely well for MS if they put in some legal clauses into the documents and twist their tongue around making it look friendly.

    Could open up a whole new can of worms where they start taking out open source projects based on the fact that those people have SEEN the code.