June 28, 2001
Microsoft Says It Will Share Code with Academics
Microsoft Says It Will Share Code with Academics
n its latest move in the hotly debated arena of open-source software, Microsoft said that it will make available the source code of its newest development tools for academic and other non-commercial uses. Microsoft said it will work with Corel to build a free "shared-source" version of Microsoft's C# (pronounced C sharp) programming language and of its common language infrastructure (CLI) development tools.
Posted by rshah at June 28, 2001 12:00 PM