[19583] in bugtraq
Re: Microsoft opening its source to selected parties
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Bhagat)
Sun Mar 11 12:57:43 2001
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:09:43 -0500
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From: Dirk Bhagat <dirk@HOSTOPIA.COM>
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In-Reply-To: <3AA8B458.6C89D9F3@aixigo.de>; from T.Haustein@AIXIGO.DE on Fri,
Mar 09, 2001 at 11:45:44AM +0100
> It is not well known, but Microsoft has given the source to universities
> and research labs for some years now. There has been a web page at
> research.microsoft.com concerning this matter and describing the
> procedure to get the code. However, I'm not aware that this has led to a
> significant increase in system security. I don't remember, whether it's
> allowed for the researchers to talk about the code or about problems
> with it.
>
Here's the URL for the source-code licenses Tobias referred to. Although I
didn't see any explicit mention of not being able to discuss the code in the
open, it _does_ mention that licensees may share code with other licensees,
etc.
http://research.microsoft.com/programs/NTSrcLicInfo.asp
Dirk Bhagat.
