Re: [Nolug] MS releases Open Source Software

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:29, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/04/05/107709.aspx
>
> Nope, it isn't April 1st.
>
> "the WiX toolset and all of its source code has been released so
> that you can build Windows Installer databases (MSI and MSM files)
> the same way most groups inside Microsoft do."
>
> They're using an OSI-approved license:
> http://opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php
>
> On Sourceforge, no less: http://sf.net/projects/wix

There's gotta be a catch....

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"The main reason that M$ gets bashed is that they persist in
writing bad code, on top of bad code.... As many have said, there
is NO PERFECT OS. The better OS though, IMHO, is the one that
will openly deal with issues, both major, and minor. Microsoft
still needs a lot of work in this area."
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/202/comment/24104#MSG
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