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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Refalm on 12 April 2004, 01:55

Title: Microsoft has another Open Source program
Post by: Refalm on 12 April 2004, 01:55

Windows Services for UNIX is an Open Source program by Microsoft.

Now, Microsoft has released another project, but this time it's on SourceForge!

http://sf.net/projects/wix/ (http://sf.net/projects/wix/)

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Microsoft Watch (http://www.microsoft-watch.com/): To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing mechanisms, all under its "shared source" umbrella. But until today, the company had not released code under what is commonly considered a true open-source license.

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Microsoft Watch (http://www.microsoft-watch.com/): WiX is a toolset for building Windows installation packages from XML source code. It runs on Windows NT and Windows 2000.

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Microsoft Watch (http://www.microsoft-watch.com/): And Microsoft plans to label its WiX CPL program as one of its "shared source" options, Matusow reiterated.

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Read more (http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1561861,00.asp).

[ April 11, 2004: Message edited by: Refalm ]

Title: Microsoft has another Open Source program
Post by: Doogee on 12 April 2004, 12:44

Weird.