Craig Mundie unveiled it, now you can read about it on the
Microsoft web site. Includes a FAQ and an overview.
The past several months have seen a growing number of
people talking about source code – the code that underlies every
computer software program. Over the past 25 years, few people
outside of the development community talked about source code and
even fewer had access. Today, that is changing as more and more
software products offer some access to source code under certain
conditions. Many of our customers and partners have asked us about
our source code philosophy and how it compares to other models in
the industry today, specifically the Open Source Software (OSS)
model used for such software as the Linux operating
system.
The
Microsoft Shared Source Page