Tuesday, 6. April 2004
Topic: COMPUTER - on April 6, 2004 at 2:30:00 PM CEST
Microsoft Releases Source Code on SourceForge
The Redmond software giant is making its Windows installer technology under OSI's Common Public License.
On Monday, Microsoft released some of its code under an open-source license, and posted it on SourceForge, the open-source code repository.
To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing mechanisms, all under its "shared source" umbrella. But until today, the company had not released code under what is commonly considered a true open-source license.
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