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Microsoft to grant free access to Windows code | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: Financial Times | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Microsoft will on Wednesday announce it will provide the underlying code of its Windows operating system to third parties for the first time. The world's largest software group has decided to make nearly all the Windows code available to government and government agencies free in an effort to encourage them to use its software. It has already supplied it to Nato and the Russian government. | ||
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| #1 By 6253 (12.237.219.240) at 1/15/2003 12:20:23 AM |
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Maybe because the Russian government isn't suing Microsoft? Maybe because the Russians respect free enterprise more than ours?
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| #2 By 2459 (24.233.39.98) at 1/15/2003 6:15:03 AM |
| I thought Apple gave Bush a Mac (seriously). |
| #3 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 1/15/2003 10:32:42 AM |
| The US govt has had access to the code for years already. |
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