Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give it.
Android is open source software, which means developers who don't work for Google are allowed to see the source code and create a range of applications to work with it.
Going further, Microsoft could be required to license the source code for Windows itself to the highest bidders.
The states so strongly believe they are right in the case that they are seeking "nuclear-weapon-like remedies" such as breaking up the company or forcing it to license the source code for Windows, Mr Kovacic said.
As such, Puzzlebox will also freely distribute all material in relation to the project, from the source code to the hardware schematics to how-to guides for dismantling and reassembling the whole thing.
It was only in the 1970s, as computing spread, that firms such as Microsoft started to withhold the source code, making software truly private.
Just as he did with a previous artificial brain model, Yamazaki plans to release the source code for the system.
It stands in contrast to the closed or proprietary systems of Microsoft and Apple who restrict access to the core or source code for their operating systems.
One of the conduct remedies cited most often by Microsoft's competitors is to force Gates to share the Windows source code.
The data can be exported to CSV, and the source code is available on Github.
And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windows source code.
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.
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.
But nobody could tell for sure because no one got to look at the guilty source code, which Microsoft claimed as a trade secret.
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Sixense says it plans to release updates and the source code, and it recommends folks sign up for their project-specific email list and keep an eye on their forums for word on availability.
They capture samples via honey pots and customer reports, un-package them, reverse engineer the executables so they can see the source code, and try to figure out what the malware is doing.
We are now at the point where the source code to whatever computer programs were used needs to be made available as well.
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The members of the alliance get a head start on competitors by getting to work with one another's source code for about a year before it's opened to the world.
The notion that free code should beget more free code is central to the open-source movement, but it's a sticky point to companies, like Cisco Systems, that make a living off of intellectual property.
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.
Saying things without providing references to evidence is a hallmark of the denialist argument, even as they demand climate scientists make available for scrutiny every change to every draft of every paper they ever touch, as well as the proprietary source code of computer programs they create to analyze their data.
The gamut of possible outcomes runs from a mild go-forth-and-sin-no-more to the truly Draconian stuff: forcing Microsoft to share its Windows source code with its competitors or carving it up into separate, independent companies, the so-called Baby Bills (see chart).
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Among the possibilities now being considered by the department are breaking the company up and licensing the Windows source-code to competitors.
The software giant said it had written to "some" of the people it had identified as sharing the source code.
The Samsung lawyer is having Williams comment on Intel source code, which the courtroom is not allowed to view because of confidentiality.
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is liberally licensed software that grants users the right to use, study, adapt and distribute its design through the availability of its source code.
But they are refusing to allow independent analysis of the program's source code, on the grounds of commercial confidentiality.
It is also making the Windows source-code available to governments for scrutiny.
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