Thursday, February 17, 2000

Windows Open Source? -- 10:03 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

According to this News.Com article, Bill Gates is reportedly willing to "open the source code" to Windows to help settle the U.S. Department of Justice's case against Microsoft. Now THAT would be interesting. Suddenly, millions of lines of spaghetti code for all the world to see. Thanks Slashdot.

The Master comments: Oh. My. I don't think Bill really wants to do that. Microsoft will be ridiculed forever. Course, I'm sure the comments in that source are VERY intriguing :-)

Update! Linux Today is reporting that Microsoft's lawyers have said, "liar, liar, pants on fire" to this report. After all, then Bill might lose money, meaning he'd have fewer servants to flog. And we don't want that, do we?

The Master comments: Ironically, Windows is not where M$ makes the big bucks. That'd be Office. At $1000 a pop for the full suite (which many companies install everywhere) versus the $89 (Win9x) to $399 (Win2K) for Windows.

News for 02/17/2000

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