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Refalm

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Microsoft has another Open Source program
« on: 12 April 2004, 01:55 »
Windows Services for UNIX is an Open Source program by Microsoft.

Now, Microsoft has released another project, but this time it's on SourceForge!

http://sf.net/projects/wix/

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Microsoft Watch: To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing mechanisms, all under its "shared source" umbrella. But until today, the company had not released code under what is commonly considered a true open-source license.
 
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Microsoft Watch: WiX is a toolset for building Windows installation packages from XML source code. It runs on Windows NT and Windows 2000.
 
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Microsoft Watch: And Microsoft plans to label its WiX CPL program as one of its "shared source" options, Matusow reiterated.


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[ April 11, 2004: Message edited by: Refalm ]


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Microsoft has another Open Source program
« Reply #1 on: 12 April 2004, 12:44 »
Weird.