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Microsoft Gets the Open-Source Religion

Posted by tadelste on · 4 comments
eWEEK Linux; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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One of technology's dirty little not-so-secret secrets is that Microsoft has been using open-source software since the early '90s in its TCP/IP network stack. Now, however, Microsoft has finally confessed to using open-source in a forthcoming product: Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition. The reason why Microsoft uses BSD-licensed TCP/IP for its network stack was the same reason almost everyone does: The BSD TCP/IP works well, and its socket-based API (application programming interface) was already becoming the accepted way for computers to work with each other.

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Comments (4)

tadelste Story submitter ·
Unbelievable. We all knew Microsoft did this. But then they come out and say that open source software development processes cannot produce reliable code.
phsolide ·
Stephen J. Vaughn-Nicols is usually pretty good, but those dopey eWeek web "masters" have screwed up their after-the-ad link - I can't get to the article.

But we expect all US adults to just let corporate lies (advertising, for the most part) just slide. Why, holding corporate entities accountable for their words, it's just plain Communist!
dinotrac ·
Tom -

Shame on you. You must have missed the footnote acknowledging the infinite army of monkeys working at an infinite number of computers exception.
tadelste Story submitter ·
Dinotrac -

So much shame being passed around. Let it fall on Billy Goat and Stevie Ball.

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