Microsoft set to reveal Windows source code in India (The Inquirer)

Posted Dec 16, 2002 19:09 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Microsoft set to reveal Windows source code in India (The Inquirer) by rknop
Parent article: Microsoft set to reveal Windows source code in India (The Inquirer)

> It's pretty obvious that this is a response to India's declaration that
> they wanted to go with open source software.

Richard Stallman was doing a tour of India, setting up Free Software
interest groups and spreading the word of Free Software. Two weeks later
Bill Gates made a trip to india, I too believe this was no coincidence.

> the big deal with "Open Source" is[n't] that *you* get the source. That's
> minor, and indeed for many people irrelevant. The big deal is that
> *everybody* gets the source.

Well said.

Ciaran O'Riordan