John Carroll thinks that anyone with a valid license should have access to Microsoft's SQL Server source code. Rather than a polemic against proprietary software, John makes a practical argument ...

This collection included the source code for numerous Microsoft operating systems, including Windows XP SP1, Windows Server 2003, MS-DOS, Windows CE, and Windows NT. Leaked Microsoft source code ...

Sure, such a move could result in cheaper SQL Server clones, and probably some SQL Server-MySQL mashups. But so what? Microsoft just might be able to get MySQL to license some of its source code ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a decision to license all the Windows Server source code for technologies covered by the European Commission's legal decision of March 2004. The voluntary move is ...

"Open-source would love to get its hands on the Microsoft [Server] source code," Rosoff said. Among the protocols that Microsoft will probably license source code for, ...

Today, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith announced Microsoft's decision to license all the Windows Server source code for the technologies covered by the European Commission's Decision of March ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. Wednesday said it's decided to license all of its Windows Server source code to address the European Union's concerns about possible anti-trust violations ...