Microsoft Releases Source Code For Web Sandbox

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @06:15AM from the could-easily-be-the-biggest-open-source-company dept.

nandemoari writes "After flirting with open source development for some time, Microsoft has made another step towards real commitment with the release of source code for Web Sandbox, a program used to test and secure web site content. The Sandbox source code will be released under the Apache 2.0 license, an open source license agreement allowing the content creator to maintain copyright while permitting others to develop the product for their own use. Microsoft has gradually been increasing their involvement with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) since 2008 when they agreed to fund development of certain ASF initiatives."

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pist fr0st!!!111!one by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-28 06:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First poooooooooooossssst! *jazz hands*
Ahhh...EEE by quantic_oscillation7 · 2009-01-28 06:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic

EEE at full speed! * ms-novell-mono *apache and this * php optimized to ms-windows
Re:A step in the right direction by h4rr4r · 2009-01-28 08:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If they want to regain peoples trust let them release all the docs the Wine project would need to be 100% interoperable. Then release real interoperability docs for exchange, sharepoint, etc.
That would do it for most.