[cumbria_lug] Microsoft open source?

[Martin Alderson]

On 6 Apr 2004, at 16:02, Russ Phillips wrote:

> Microsoft appear to have released some code under an open source 
> licence:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1561948,00.asp
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1561953,00.asp
>
> ...and posted it on SourceForge.net!
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/
>
> The date on the news article is April *5th*, so I don't think this is 
> a wind-up
>
> Russ

I read that on Slashdot - very intresting. However, it is a installer 
which MS needs to be cross platform to work (XML web installer if I 
recall correctly) so really it's not a huge amount of code to released. 
Good to see MS starting to work better with the OS community, I 
suppose.

Martin Alderson,
IntechHosting

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