By Kate Hanaghan, 3 May 2001 15:48
NEWS Craig Mundie, a senior VP with the company, will address an audience at the Stern School of Business in New York today. In a speech entitled 'The commercial software model and Microsoft's shared source philosophy', he will announce that Microsoft plans to extend access to its Windows' source code. However, according to press reports Microsoft will still control who gets access to the code. The public will not get free access to the source. Microsoft hopes to take advantage of the wealth of knowledge that has been pumped into open source software such as Linux.
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