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To: dayglored

MICROSOFT OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS


5 posted on 04/02/2015 2:49:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Geez, that’s a lot of projects. Granted, many were already open-source before MS got their hands on them, but still, a lot there.


11 posted on 04/02/2015 3:03:41 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Almost 20 years ago, there was an experimental IPv6 stack driver for NT4. It was released as an open-source driver by their R&D division, since they were at peak monopoly then...(coughcoughinternetexplorer4coughcough)

The documentation is still there if you look deep enough, but the code may well be long gone...

For Windows 2000/XP, the IPv6 stack became mature enough (and feature-complete by 2000, but only provisionally approved for production environments in 2001, fully so in 2006)—they just took it private...


25 posted on 04/02/2015 11:03:37 PM PDT by __rvx86 (¡SI SE PUEDE! (Cruz 2016!))
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