Hunt around for whoever it might be that owns the rights (and, crucially, has the source code of) to the games that were popular twenty and thirty years ago.
Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give it.
This in and of itself is admirable, but the BBC has taken it one step further and put the source code out there for all to see and use.
Reiser's argument in his lawsuit was that Microsoft has denied Namesys access to the central facilities, the source code, necessary for him to provide a source code patch.
On the other hand, a small group of Samsung engineers has been working on medical applications of eye tracking, using open source code from Eyecan and the Not Impossible Foundation.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.
I'm thrilled to announce that we are publishing the source code for We the People, the online petitions system that has been a popular way for the public to connect with the White House over the past year.
All the code that Microsoft has developed for connecting Windows to Hadoop will be Open Source.
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Since the open-source release, dubbed Darwin, has been available, there have been more than 160, 000 downloads of source-code components and more than 20, 000 developers have registered on Apple's Darwin Web site, Bereskin said.
Its MxR Lab has just launched a showcase of creations and modifications that DIY enthusiasts can build, including open source code for both the devices and integrating full-body motion control through Kinect for Windows or OpenNI.
In short, Adobe has embraced the open web, contributing input and code to both WC3 web standards and WebKit open source web browser engine.
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Firefox has 50 in-house developers, but, in open-source tradition, 1, 000 volunteers worldwide regularly contribute code.
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