Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Dec 2007 21:29 UTC, submitted by diegocg
"Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba. Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th 2007."
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2007-02-17
Then why did they use the BSD network stack code for so many versions of Windows?
However, that aside, your point is somewhat valid. Microsoft have, for example, even written a number of non-standard computer languages & active web page designers as their own stuff ... their own stuff to such an extent that any program or webpage written in such a language is necessarily a Windows-only program or can be served only by a Windows server respectively.
That is, in fact, what .NET seems to be all about.
Right now they seem to be pushing Silverlight with claims of the player being cross-platform (such a shame that Siverlight material can be prepared only on a Windows system).
Funny that.
They use (largely) their own stuff, and are dead keen to try to make it so that *YOU* are able to use nothing but their stuff.