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Wolface
04-05-2004, 11:57 AM
here is the link
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=365546

for the lazy (or dialup people)

" WiX v2.0.1605.0 - Microsoft's first OSS project

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The project, originally developed internal to Microsoft, was released today under the Common Public License (a first for Microsoft)."

More information about the toolset and its OSS release can be found at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/04/05/107709.aspx

:confused:
what this means??
conspiracy theorist in action!
hard candy
04-05-2004, 12:10 PM
It means I'm going to Compusa and demand my free copy of opensource WinXP, and after I get out of jail/asylum, I'm gong back to linux. :p
bsm2001
04-05-2004, 12:18 PM
There just trying to find someone to to do there dirty work and kill the bugs for them so they can get longhorn out faster.:eek:
Icarus
04-05-2004, 12:38 PM
I'm starting to think that we should just link /dev/random to http://slashdot.org :rolleyes:

They have open sourced their installer program. Whoop! I've open sourced my shoes also, anyone is free to add to them if they would like...

With any luck this will help the wine(x) projects to finally get those odd applications to install.
Wolface
04-05-2004, 12:42 PM
Originally posted by mahdi
IWith any luck this will help the wine(x) projects to finally get those odd applications to install.

uknow... I didn't thought about that
I guess every little detail that is released under OSS will be a great help for the wine project. At the same time the possibility to run M$ software on linux.
could backfire
anmaxp
04-05-2004, 03:06 PM
just anocher one of Mordorsoft's evil schemes...
Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
04-06-2004, 04:32 PM
This is all fine and good, but think about this: Has anyone checked it out yet?

Just because they released it open source doesn't mean that they couldn't have written a bunch of ugly, obfuscated code.
j79zlr
04-06-2004, 04:34 PM
Originally posted by Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
Just because they released it open source doesn't mean that they couldn't have written a bunch of ugly, obfuscated code.

Doesn't mean its not the real code :D