| | BetaNews | Microsoft Appeals Source Code Sharing |
 | | September 7, 2005, 11:23 AM Saying any public release of its source code has "far-reaching implications for the protection of our intellectual property rights around the world," Microsoft appealed a European Union ruling that would force the company to share the bits behind certain Windows networking protocols. |
 | | If ms was smart they wouyld comply, save tons of money in litigation and fines and simply stipulate that the developers must get the required code direct from ms and agree NOT to have the ms core code in the.src,.c or.h files of their developed and released product. |
 | | This is a workable option since the source from ms can be hard coded in such as way as to make it impractical to decompile just to see, yet still useable to the developers in their distributions. |
| www.betanews.com /article/Microsoft_Appeals_Source_Code_Sharing/1126106625 (937 words) |