The Washington Post, April 14th, 1999
With Microsoft and the Justice Department closeted off somewhere trying to settle their antitrust suit, the word from Microsoft headquarters is that the company is exploring whether to release to the world the source code for the next generation of its operating system, Windows 2000. "There have been discussions of what `open source' might mean for Windows," confirms one Microsoft executive. He stresses that the software giant is far from making any decision to give away its trademark product. And he notes that any move to open up licensing would be done for business reasons, to assist softwar...
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