Re: Microsoft opening its source to selected parties

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew S. Hamrick
arkless" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 6:37 AM Subject: Microsoft opening its source to selected parties From http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-5067896-0.html?tag=nbs: In a major extension of corporate policy, Microsoft has quietly started a pro

Re: Microsoft opening its source to selected parties

2001-03-12 Thread Dan Harkless
Dirk Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is not well known, but Microsoft has given the source to universities and research labs for some years now. There has been a web page at research.microsoft.com concerning this matter and describing the procedure to get the code. However, I'm not

Re: Microsoft opening its source to selected parties

2001-03-11 Thread Dirk Bhagat
It is not well known, but Microsoft has given the source to universities and research labs for some years now. There has been a web page at research.microsoft.com concerning this matter and describing the procedure to get the code. However, I'm not aware that this has led to a significant

Re: Microsoft opening its source to selected parties

2001-03-11 Thread Matthew Keller
Crispin Cowan wrote: * Microsoft owns all intellectual property resulting from your research involving the source This is inaccurate - All IP is owned by the author/University - M$ stakes no claim to it (amazingly enough).Crispin Cowan wrote: -- Matthew Keller Enterprise

Microsoft opening its source to selected parties

2001-03-09 Thread Dan Harkless
From http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-5067896-0.html?tag=nbs: In a major extension of corporate policy, Microsoft has quietly started a program to provide selected large enterprise customers with copies of the source code for Windows 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server