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:internetnews.com: Microsoft's WTL Off to Open Source
internetnews.com: Microsoft's WTL Off to Open Source
May 13, 2004, 02 :00 UTC (25 Talkback[s]) (10855 reads)

(Other stories by Ryan Naraine)

"For the second time in as many months, Microsoft has published source code for one of its projects on SourceForge, the world's largest open-source software development repository.

"The software giant announced plans to release the Windows Template Library (WTL) project on SourceForge under an externally created open-source license. The idea is to encourage a larger pool of developers to tinker with the code and improve the bug-finding process.

"The WTL is a lightweight windowing C++ template library that allows the creation of simple Windows GUI interfaces on Windows applications. According to Jason Matusow, manager of the Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, the library was posted to the MSDN network for several years and has been downloaded more than 90,000 times..."

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It's good to all linuxers...  ...   hoooo   
woocc
May 13, 2004, 02:57:23
 
This is a lame attempt by MS to keep fro ...   Lame attempt to secure user base   
john rhodes
May 13, 2004, 03:22:04
 
just leave it there until it will become ...   Don't take the bait   
Xunil Ung
May 13, 2004, 03:45:52
 
"There was a concern on MSDN that we wer ...   Eh?   
Bojan Smojver
May 13, 2004, 05:42:42
 
quote:I sure hope nobody is fool enough  ...   Re: Lame attempt to secure user base   
Sepero
May 13, 2004, 06:18:01
 
They still don't get it.  It is not  ...   They don't get it   
Bill Nuxli
May 13, 2004, 11:55:36
 
Microsoft has also released their compil ...   Not so lame   
Arie Tal
May 13, 2004, 11:56:25
 
Well. I'm one of those "fools" whose ...   Re: Lame attempt to secure user base   
senkwe
May 13, 2004, 12:36:26
 
> Well. I'm one of those "fools" who ...   Re: Re: Lame attempt to secure user base   
brown
May 13, 2004, 14:19:12
 
This is just bait to get the Open Source ...   Don't Get Baited   
Clayton Muhler
May 13, 2004, 15:08:28
 
> Well. I'm one of those "fools" who ...   Re: Re: Lame attempt to secure user base   
Pete C
May 13, 2004, 15:41:53
 
I don't do windows, so what use is i ...   What use is it?   
Charles Hixson
May 13, 2004, 16:06:40
 
Now that MS has released some kind of GU ...   Assimilation   
SyntheToonz
May 13, 2004, 16:49:48
 
Actually, I happen to like WTL.  I'v ...   Quite good actually.   
Trevor Morgan
May 13, 2004, 17:48:40
 
> Well. I'm one of those "fools" who ...   Re: Re: Lame attempt to secure user base   
Tony OBryan
May 13, 2004, 18:27:08
 
I want M$ to die slowly and painfully bu ...   Screw MS but acknowledge this   
JillGates
May 13, 2004, 18:38:41
 
>>If Microsoft ever gets sued over the c ...   Re: Re: Re: Lame attempt to secure user base   
senkwe
May 13, 2004, 19:37:20
 
>> I'm sorry, what happened to the s ...   Re: Eh?   
senkwe
May 13, 2004, 19:42:37
 
With the Common Public License (CPL) the ...   It may be good, but it is CPLed, not GPLed!!!   
Richard Staff
May 13, 2004, 20:24:46
 
Well. I'm one of those "fools" whose ...   Re: Re: Lame attempt to secure user base   
Nicholas Donovan
May 13, 2004, 20:38:48
 
> >> I'm sorry, what happened to the ...   Re: Re: Eh?   
Bojan Smojver
May 14, 2004, 02:01:41
 
same thing.They hook their victims by gi ...   Dope dealers do the ....   
GreyGeek
May 14, 2004, 12:52:10
 
> So, you almost seem to be implying tha ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Lame attempt to secure user base   
Tony OBryan
May 14, 2004, 13:46:24
 
Now if any similar product comes out MS  ...   Open to lawsuits   
Jim
May 14, 2004, 14:22:14
 
> So your position seems to be "If MS do ...   Re: Re: Lame attempt to secure user base   
Sepero
May 15, 2004, 04:30:29
 
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