No offence, but I think you've completely missed my point. Yes, Microsoft might release the source code for some of their projects, (though never under GPL/BSD licenses etc.), but that isn't what I'm talking about. They might even host an open source community for Microsoft developers to share code. Again, I'm not talking about that.
My point is that a piece of open source software that isn't written by Microsoft developers will NEVER make it into a Microsoft product put out by Microsoft the company. Microsoft will NEVER use Webkit: it wasn't developed by them. If a piece of open source software exists that Microsoft would like to use within their range of products (e.g. Memcached), they either have to buy it outright or reinvent it. However, I do concede that it looks like some BSD-licensed TCP/IP code could have made it into NT, as others have pointed out. Thanks for enlightening me ... controversial! :) M. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Michael Adams Sent: Mon 9/8/2008 9:05 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [phpug] Re: [OT] Google releases a new web browser On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:34:34 +1200 Matt Vickers increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words: > > Nice thought ... but it'll never happen. Microsoft has NEVER > incorporated any open source toolkits or libraries into their products > (I'm happy to be proven wrong on this point) http://www.codeplex.com/ ***QUOTE ***************** About CodePlex CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. Start a new project, join an existing one, or download software created by the community. ***END QUOTE ************* -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 Scanned by Bizo Email Filter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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