RE: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-03-08T16:10:13Z

My initial thought after seeing this article was that microsoft was testing
its waters on open sourcing. If i have 1500 licenses then i would get the
source. If i find any bug in thier source , i would report to microsoft or
send a patch and they would put it in thier next version. Is this not the
same way Linux Kernel is developed?. Only thing microsoft does not want to
immediately go full open sourcing and get embarrased at the hands of linux
people.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Cox [SMTP:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 11:06 AM
> To: Venkateshr@ami.com
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?
>
> > Please check out this article. Looks like microsoft know open source is
> the
> > thing of the future. I would consider that it is a begining step for
> full
> > blown GPL!!!!
>
> Oh sure
>
> Maybe 1200 people
>
> "Users are prohibited from amending"
>
> Sorry but Linus had > 1200 people able to modify his code in 1992