Re: [OT] MS to release source code

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
10 Apr 1999 09:58:00 +0200


bero@berolinux.za.net (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer) wrote on 09.04.99 in <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904091340460.926-100000@k6.microsoft.sucks.eu.org>:

> On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Linux Lists wrote:
>
> > Have you seen this ?? What's the catch ?!?!?
>
> They say they "might" release "underlying programming code", which is not
> necessarily the source - might as well be their description of API
> examples.
> I don't think M$ will ever release source - it would make too many people
> laugh at them (not for releasing the source, but for how stupid the source
> is ;) ).

M$ *have* already released some source, for some versions of "release".
For example, a number of drivers are in the various DDKs.

The people who look at this, though, are typically not so much laughing at
M$, but instead swearing at them, for how stupid the source is (and yes,
it *is* incredibly stupid in places).

MfG Kai

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