Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday April 9, 2008 @10:52AM 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."

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Re:stupid summary by flahwho · 2008-04-09 12:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

Well, on the other hand, we never expected MS to disclose 14k pages of anything but contracts.
Or EULAS!
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Re:Why is parent flamebait? by CastrTroy · 2008-04-09 13:09 · Score: -1, Redundant

And yet they still fail Acid3 miserably.

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