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The judge in the Micro$oft anti-trust case has told the software monopoly that it must hand over the source code to Windows <\/a>to lawyers for the nine US states that have declined to accept the Federally-brokered settlement.<\/p>\n

The states are seeking to require M$ to strip out various tools from the Windows OS so that competitors can offer their own “plug-ins” for those features. M$ claims this is impossible, that all these tools are integral parts of the OS. So, says US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, prove it.<\/p>\n

The scary thing is that M$, which is infamous for its tangled, uncontrolled Gordian Knot of code (which leads, in turn, to obscure crashes and security holes) may actually be right. Certainly there’s no sign that M$ has ever approached software in a modular fashion.<\/p>\n

Still, the judge’s call is a fair one. It should be entertaining to see what happens next.<\/p>\n

(Via Sekimori<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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