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Shared source: Get a limited peek at the Windows source code
News To facilitate this, Microsoft has introduced the Shared Source Licensing Programs. Addressing open source: These programs are designed to provide qualified organisations access to the Windows source code, while ensuring that code doesn't go beyond...
[May 29, 2003, 14:19]
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 tweaks 'shared source' for Windows CE
News In a highly touted announcement late on Wednesday, Microsoft expanded its existing "shared source" programme for Windows CE, its OS for "embedded" devices, which include everything from handheld computers to mobile phones to sewing machines.
[April 10, 2003, 8:20]
Open Source only viable way to do shared-services
Talkback If they spent even a couple of hours investigating how 'shared-services' is done in the real world, then even our Microsoft-obsessed Government would figure out that it's done with Open Source. DfT should take a leaf out of Becta's book and start...
[May 23, 2008, 14:15]
"shared-source" software licences
Talkback Their record speaks for itself, and they will continue to pursue open source as an enemy to destroy all competition. Don't hold your breath on M$ doing the right thing on this. This is normal for a company that has an inferior product.
[August 1, 2007, 13:03]
Microsoft edges into sharing code
News In a move as political as it is technological, Microsoft said Wednesday it will use its new "shared source" philosophy to help spread the software plumbing of its Microsoft .Net plan beyond the Windows operating system.
[June 28, 2001, 13:44]
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. When you say Shared Source, what do you mean exactly?
[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. Microsoft is willing to make use of certified open-source...
[July 30, 2007, 18:13]
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 shows code to 'trusted users'
News The "shared source" programme already allows some governments and technology companies access to some Microsoft code. Those eligible for Microsoft's various shared-source programmes are permitted to see some of Microsoft's code, but they can't make...
[October 23, 2003, 9:00]
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 programme now opens all the Windows CE source code, except for a small amount which Microsoft has licensed from...
[April 10, 2003, 13:28]
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]
Hull Equips Its Students for the Real World With New Leading-Edge MSc Degree Course
White Papers In April 2002, The University attended a Microsoft conference where the Microsoft Shared Source Code and Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) were discussed. Hull University was founded in 1928.
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
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, Red Hat argue open source
News What's missing from Microsoft's shared-source program is this "bidirectional" exchange "that puts all participants at an equal level. As an alternative, Microsoft in May came out with its own "shared source" plan, a collection of licences that...
[July 27, 2001, 10:45]
Decoding Microsoft's open source argument
News I described Microsoft's shared-source philosophy, a balanced approach that enables commercial companies to share source code with their customers and partners while preserving the intellectual property rights that support a strong software business.
[May 22, 2001, 12:11]
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]
Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
News Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open-source-based cloud computing will be solving many problems in the real world, open-source advocates have predicted.
[December 3, 2008, 17:23]
Open source community wooed by Microsoft
News And we’ve recently released shared source licences for some of our products as well. 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...
[June 29, 2006, 12:55]
Hull to host first .Net masters degree
News Microsoft said the university beat off competition from 120 other academic institutions worldwide to use Microsoft's Shared Source common Language Interface (CLI). Grey said he believes that providing our students with the inner workings of the...
[December 11, 2002, 17:27]
