[arkin@trendline.co.il: Microsoft open to open source for Windows?]

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Unbelievable!

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> Microsoft open to open source for Windows? 
> 
>   By Bob Trott 
>   InfoWorld Electric 
> 
>   Posted at 10:37 AM PT, Apr 7, 1999 
>   LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft President Steve Ballmer sent a message to the
> computer industry --
>   as well as the U.S. Department of Justice -- that the software giant
> is "thinking with great interest"
>   about opening up Windows source code. 
> 
>   Ballmer's comments at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference '99
> here Wednesday
>   marked the first time that Microsoft has publicly mulled over the
> possibility of using an open-source
>   model for its prized operating system. 
> 
>   Responding to a question from Microsoft hardware evangelist Carl
> Stork, Ballmer said there were
>   some drawbacks to making Windows code widely available, and many users
> such as company
>   CEOs do not want their shops tinkering with the code. 
> 
>   However, Ballmer said the company was coming to realize that giving
> source code to users creates
>   a "certain level of comfort" for many of them. 
> 
>   "There is a comfort level, and we are, of course, thinking with great
> interest about that," Ballmer
>   said. He offered no further elaboration. 
> 
>   One of the remedies being discussed in the Microsoft antitrust trial
> is opening up Windows to other
>   developers. Company officials, who have met with government
> prosecutors in hopes of negotiating
>   a settlement, have in the past closely guarded Windows source code as
> intellectual propert
> 
> 
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