[ Thanks to John
Zbesko for this link. ]
“Microsoft Wednesday said it would reveal the source code for
Windows Server software, in order to comply with the European
Commission’s 2004 anti-trust decision. Brussels has hoped that the
requirement would herald a new openness in Redmond, but it’s more
likely to open the floodgates for malware.“When a programmer codes, they are actually creating text files
with instructions that are later translated into machine code by a
program called a compiler. That machine code is what is usually
packaged up and licensed to software clients…”