Re: [TCLUG:5120] [arkin@trendline.co.il: Microsoft open to open source for Windows?]

[Joseph Heil <heilja@dbsource.com>]

Quoting Bob Tanner (tanner@real-time.com):
> Unbelievable!

NOOOO WAY!  I didnt see any pigs flying today....

> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Arkin <arkin@trendline.co.il> -----
> > Microsoft open to open source for Windows? 
> > 
> >   By Bob Trott 
> >   InfoWorld Electric 
> > 
> >   Posted at 10:37 AM PT, Apr 7, 1999 
> >   LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft President Steve Ballmer sent a message to the
> > computer industry --
> >   as well as the U.S. Department of Justice -- that the software giant
> > is "thinking with great interest"
> >   about opening up Windows source code. 
> > 
> >   Ballmer's comments at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference '99
> > here Wednesday
> >   marked the first time that Microsoft has publicly mulled over the
> > possibility of using an open-source
> >   model for its prized operating system. 
> > 
> >   Responding to a question from Microsoft hardware evangelist Carl
> > Stork, Ballmer said there were
> >   some drawbacks to making Windows code widely available, and many users
> > such as company
> >   CEOs do not want their shops tinkering with the code. 
> > 
> >   However, Ballmer said the company was coming to realize that giving
> > source code to users creates
> >   a "certain level of comfort" for many of them. 
> > 
> >   "There is a comfort level, and we are, of course, thinking with great
> > interest about that," Ballmer
> >   said. He offered no further elaboration. 
> > 
> >   One of the remedies being discussed in the Microsoft antitrust trial
> > is opening up Windows to other
> >   developers. Company officials, who have met with government
> > prosecutors in hopes of negotiating
> >   a settlement, have in the past closely guarded Windows source code as
> > intellectual propert
> > 
> > 
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