June 18, 2001
Microsoft Using Some Open-Source Software
Microsoft Using Some Open-Source Software
Microsoft , even while mounting a new campaign against open-source software, has quietly been using such free computer code in several major products, as well as on key portions of a popular Web site -- despite denying last week that it did so. Software connected with the FreeBSD open-source operating system is used in several places deep inside several versions of Microsoft's Windows software, such as in the "TCP/IP" section that arranges all connections to the Internet.
Posted by rshah at June 18, 2001 12:00 PM