In a recent announcement Microsoft declared a "Strategic Change" in their relationship with the open source community: Publishing on MSDN over 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols and API. Protocol documentation for additional products, such as Office 2007, will be published in the upcoming months. Microsoft is providing a covenant not to sue open source developers for development or non-commercial distribution of implementations of these protocols. These...
Microsoft's latest move , to release the source code for the .Net framework, has triggered a variety of reactions due to the licencing model used in this release. Frans Bouma thinks that looking at the source code makes you liable to legal action: Take for example the new ReaderWriterLockSlim class introduced in .NET 3.5. It's in the System.Threading namespace which will be released in the pack of sourcecode-you-can-look-at. This class is a replacement for the flawed ReaderWriterLock in the...