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Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License

Posted by timothy on from the share-nicely dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The H Online writes: 'Microsoft has placed its process for secure software development under a Creative Commons License. The company hopes that this will lead to more developers utilising its process for programming software more securely across the entire product lifecycle ...'"

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  1. secure? by Murdoch5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft and Secure? I'm I missing something here.

  2. Re:Oh boy... by somersault · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, this is kind of like the church releasing its guidelines for picking up hookers under Creative Commons.

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  3. mistagged? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shouldn't this be tagged as "humor"?

  4. Re:At least they're trying. by symbolset · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is not the Special Olympics.

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  5. So someone in Redmond decided... by Dracos · · Score: 3, Funny

    That the world needed a free lesson in how not to develop secure software?

  6. Ugh, doc by diegocg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unless someone converts it to PDF I'm not downloading that....

  7. Re:Oh boy... by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think their problems are on multiple fronts:

    Or "they're not done re-inventing UNIX yet."

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  8. Re:At least they're trying. by davester666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is for Microsoft.

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