Even if the market is dominated by a single platform, that market share will be shared among several companies that build products using that platform, who wil compete with each other to produce enhancements to the underlying, sharedcode.
However, the new findings that reveal how the teams shared source code of at least one module in the early stages of development prove that the groups cooperated at least once.
Microsoft, he says, makes a large amount of source code available under a so-called shared-source licence, which grants users downstream a limited set of rights to modify and use the code.
Saladin and Richard the Lionheart were self-advertised as credal foes but, in chroniclers' depictions, shared the great common ethos of their time: the code of chivalry.