Noted MS MVP and general technology/.NET blogger, Frans Bouma recently posted about Microsoft's recent decision to open the .NET Base Class Library (BCL) source code for reference-only (so that you can, for example, step into the BCL code in the debugger which is currently impossible).
Frans suggests that, if you're a .NET developer, you do NOT look at the code since Microsoft's license does not have a provision for being 'tainted' by looking at the code. Other similar licenses (such as the one Sun uses for Java) have 'taint' provisions to prevent you from suffering legal problems after looking at the code.
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