Microsoft Gets the Open-Source Religion

Posted by tadelste on Sep 15, 2005 6:06 PM EDT
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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