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Microsoft Simplifies Shared Source Programme
News On the company's Shared Source Initiative Web site, Microsoft on Tuesday posted details of three new licences. Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative is a programme to allow third parties, such as other software companies and large customers, to see...
[October 19, 2005, 17:05]
Microsoft: We'll Open Up More Source Code
News As programme manager of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft, Jason Matusow is responsible for coordinating Microsoft' global source licensing strategy. Since then, Microsoft has been rolling out its Shared Source Initiative.
[September 18, 2002, 16:27]
Microsoft Aims For Open-source Certification
News After years of speculation, Microsoft said last week it will submit its "shared-source" software licences to the Open Source Initiative, for approval as fully "open-source" licences. Today, we reached another milestone with the decision to submit...
[July 30, 2007, 18:13]
Microsoft Shares Source Code With Students
News Microsoft said on Wednesday that it will share with students more than a million lines of source code -- the underlying software blueprint -- for its .Net Internet initiative, including the code for its Shared Source CLI implementation, which...
[March 27, 2002, 16:10]
Expect To See More Microsoft Source
Leader So in spring 2001 Microsoft created its Shared Source Initiative giving governments, universities and large corporates unprecedented but still tightly controlled access to Windows source code. As the threat to Microsoft increases, we should expect...
[September 20, 2004, 14:30]
Microsoft: Getting To Grips With Open Source
News Another, less well-known example of Microsoft's attempts at creating an open source-like community of developers is the Shared Source Initiative. But even this initiative demonstrates that, while Microsoft may be slowly opening up its vaults, it's...
[July 20, 2006, 13:35]
Microsoft Experiments With Open Source
News The company said earlier this year that it was considering a number of products for potential code releases under its Shared Source Initiative, which has been under way for roughly three years. The software giant made the code available under the...
[April 6, 2004, 17:10]
MS Security Chief: We Are Not Stopping Development
News However, Okin says the month's events are really just the next step in a security drive begun last year with the introduction of Microsoft's Secure Windows Initiative. Programmes like the Secure Windows Initiative and the Strategic Technology...
[February 15, 2002, 15:07]
New Windows Embedded 'raises The Bar For Linux'
News However, Hardy Poppinga, product manager for Microsoft's mobile and embedded division in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, told ZDNet UK that the new "shared source" initiative was in itself the division's "most significant announcement for years".
[November 1, 2006, 16:23]
Microsoft Opens Up Windows Tools
News This is hardly something that is brand-new," said Jason Matusow, shared source initiative manager at Microsoft. Microsoft has shared other, more substantive portions of its code, but typically under its more restrictive shared-source programme...
[May 14, 2004, 8:45]
Shared Source And Open Solutions: An E-Government Perspective
White Papers This paper presents Microsoft's experience with its Intellectual Property Sharing programs and Shared Source Initiative. Over the past four years, increasing commercialisation has been a significant influence on free and open source software.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft May Open Office Door
News The company's Shared Source Initiative, launched nearly three years ago, allows business customers, governments, business partners and academic institutions access to the source code, or software blueprint, underlying Microsoft's Windows operating...
[January 19, 2004, 10:00]
Microsoft Defends Windows CE Code-share
News Microsoft has responded to criticisms of the new version of its shared source initiative for Windows CE, announced on Wednesday. The embedded market is especially good for this sort of initiative," said Poppingar.
[April 10, 2003, 13:28]
Governments Get Access To Office Source Code
News Governments have made wide use of access to Windows source code, said Jason Matusow, director of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, the wider programme by which Microsoft allows selective access to source code.
[September 20, 2004, 8:20]
Open Source Community Wooed By Microsoft
News Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative covers a range of programmes. Some open source advocates, such as Richard Stallman, have claimed in the past that developers should approach Microsoft's Shared Source licences with caution because of these...
[June 29, 2006, 12:55]
Microsoft Aims To Beat Linux Through Community Spirit
News Microsoft is considering extending its shared-source initiative, currently limited to large users such as governments and universities, to MVPs. The MVP initiative will be a big part of Microsoft's efforts to promote a sense of "community" among...
[September 24, 2002, 8:34]
Open Source Community Wooed By Microsoft
Talkback None of this MS tainted nonsense.Shared Source Initiative.What a joke. Don't think I'm stupid MS, I know your sudden change of heart is a renewed initiative to gun after open-source.It stands in your way.It does not take a rocket scientist to...
[June 29, 2006, 23:50]
Microsoft Faces The Music At LinuxWorld
News Taylor also touted Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, in which the company lets outsiders see some underlying source code but does not permit them to change or redistribute it, as open-source software licenses typically do.
[January 23, 2004, 8:50]
Microsoft: Open Source's Best Friend?
News But the initiative has drawn flak from some quarters in the open source community, judging from the responses posted on Port 25 blogs. Developers who start projects on CodePlex can use any licence they feel fits their project the best, but will...
[May 17, 2006, 11:00]
Trustworthy Computing - Could Try Harder
News Of course, to get an accurate picture of how Microsoft has progressed in recent months, it's important to look at how the company was doing prior to the new initiative. The initiative was labeled "Trustworthy Computing.
[October 8, 2002, 9:15]
