Three years ago, Microsoft announced an initiative for letting industry partners, corporate customers and researchers peek at and sometimes tweak the code in the company's software. The motivation for the program, which Microsoft called shared source, could be summed up in one word - Linux.
Today, Microsoft is announcing that its shared-source program has one million licensed participants, from lone software developers to large corporations. The milestone, said Jason Matusow, manager of the shared-source initiative at Microsoft, shows that the company has responded to the demands of its customers.
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