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Microsoft's code sharing offer draws blank

BS Corporate Bureau in New Delhi | September 30, 2003 08:59 IST

The world's largest software company Microsoft Corporation said on Monday that it has made an offer to the India to share the source code of some of its programmes and it is yet to hear from the government on it.

As per the programme source code sharing programme, Microsoft shares the source code of its key software technologies with the government and allows it to undertake evaluation of security as well as other aspects of it. The Centre sometime back had shown interest in access to source codes of various Microsoft products.

Craig Mundie, chief technology officer and senior vice-president advanced strategies and policy, Microsoft Corporation also said the company is going ahead with the source code sharing programme despite the recent virus attacks targeting its products.

"When we enter into a source code sharing programme we have strict confidentiality clauses. We do not expect it to lead to security breaches," Mundie said.

According to him, over 90 per cent of security breaches on various Microsoft products can be traced back to work undertaken by the third party software vendors that the company work with in software product development.

He said the company has taken a massive exercise to incorporate security as a key of all products of Microsoft. Microsoft on Monday also launched project 'Bhasha' to accelerate local language computing.

As a part of the project, Microsoft will focus on product localisation, government ties, academia developer integration and building a local language eco-system.

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Sub: I thought Microsoft was just a s/w firm...

The manner in which MS is making an issue about the silence from the Indian govt. leads one to equate it with George Bush's request ...


Posted by KRS





Sub: Where was Bill sleeping till now ?

Suddenly he is talking of code sharing to divert our attention from Linux !! This is his clear attempt to preampt the Linux at government ...


Posted by chanakya





Sub: Microsoft's tricks

The OpenSource software movement derives its strengths from the army of developers who constantly improve and enhance the software. If Microsoft thinks that they can ...


Posted by K Vinod Kumar





Sub: GNU/Linux makes the same offer in a bigger and better way.

GNU/Linux offers it's entire source code to be viewed, tested, scrutinized and changed in anyway. In fact people all over the world have been doing ...


Posted by Nikhil K.




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