:Consultant: Microsoft Responds to Open Source Leadership
Consultant: Microsoft Responds to Open Source Leadership Oct 13, 2007, 20 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (5319 reads) (Other stories by Dahna McConnachie)
"By opening its .Net Framework libraries Microsoft is again responding to the leadership of the Open Source community, according to industry consultants and developers, but remaining on the back foot.
"The software giant last week released its .Net framework library under a Microsoft Reference License, which means the code can be viewed but not modified or redistributed..."