Article: Big Users Get the Crown Jewels: Win2K Source.(Microsoft hands out source code)(Company Business and Marketing)

So, it seems Microsoft has been secretly handing out copies of Windows 2000 source code to some of its biggest and best end-user customers for more six months under a pilot program and now the code is likely to go to hundreds more companies.

This isn't open source, mind. The companies have to sign what Microsoft execs call "very strict" NDAs and have no right to change a line of the blessed stuff.

Microsoft even claims it's not a response to Linux and the open source community.

.NET server group lead program manager Steve Lipner swears it's not.

Absolutely not.

"This is not in any way an open source program," he says. "We're ...

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