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Another sysadmin sent me this and I thought the list might like to know 
about it considering Microsoft's previous stand on the subject of open source.

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5185549.html";>http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5185549.html</a>

Microsoft -- facing increasing pressure from open-source competition -- 
made a nod to open source fans on Monday. The company &quot;published the code 
for one of its products on an open-source software development Web site 
late Monday, departing from its hard-line stance against making the 
underlying components of its technology available to the general public,&quot; 
CNET's News.com reported. &quot;Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft revealed the code 
for its Windows Installer XML (WiX) software, a set of tools used to build 
installation packages for the company's Windows products from XML source 
code. According to the information posted on the SourceForge site, a 
resource for open-source collaboration projects, the actual code Microsoft 
published supports an environment that software developers can use for 
creating Windows setup packages.&quot;
. CNET's News.com: Microsoft Airs Tools' Source Code Online


<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/";>http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/</a>
<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://wix.sourceforge.net/";>http://wix.sourceforge.net/</a>

    this redirects to

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/category/4625.aspx";>http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/category/4625.aspx</a>


in shock,
keith

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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ITD
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836


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