On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 15:34 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:22 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Jim Cornette > > <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>> On the other hand M$ anounced today it would rellease 3,000 pages of its > > > >>> Vista and Office code to the public. > > > >> Errr... that's 30,000 pages. How fast can you make everything > > > >> interoperate perfectly now? > > > > > > What is the goal for releasing the pages? Improve it, then get sued for > > > using the code? > > > Or is it because Microsoft is concentrating on gaming and embedded > > > devices and expecting others to make it less of a nightmare? > > > > > > Look, I don't know where this rumor came out. I don't think Microsoft > > is releasing Vista or Office code, no I think this at all relevant to > > Fedora Linux > I agree it may not be relevant but I heard Steve Balmer say they were > releasing the code. AFAIK they are releasing *documentation* (including APIs), not code. poc
