In response to EU criticism that Microsoft didn’t release enough interoperability information on it’s server protocols to licensees, Microsoft released source code.
While that’s great, it’s not a map of the APIs that was requested. It’s far less useful, as the receiver then has to wade through loads of crap to figure out what they need to do instead of having it mapped in a simple way for them. This looks to be another attempt to stymie competition from the Redmond behemoth.
To further confuse the issue, they try to play it off that the code is so much more useful, they don’t know why anyone would have a problem with it. Because, hey, those open source folks release code, and you like them, right?
Then again, when’s the last time you went through the X11 sourcecode because you wanted to open a screen? Thought so.
