Advice for Red Hat/Fedora

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 15:34 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:22 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Jim Cornette
> > <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> > > >>> On the other hand M$ anounced today it would rellease 3,000 pages of its
> > >  >>> Vista and Office code to the public.
> > >  >> Errr... that's 30,000 pages.  How fast can you make everything
> > >  >> interoperate perfectly now?
> > >
> > >  What is the goal for releasing the pages? Improve it, then get sued for
> > >  using the code?
> > >  Or is it because Microsoft is concentrating on gaming and embedded
> > >  devices and expecting others to make it less of a nightmare?
> > 
> > 
> > Look, I don't know where this rumor came out. I don't think Microsoft
> > is releasing Vista or Office code, no I think this at all relevant to
> > Fedora Linux
> I agree it may not be relevant but I heard Steve Balmer say they were
> releasing the code.

AFAIK they are releasing *documentation* (including APIs), not code.

poc