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Shared Source

A licensing agreement from Microsoft for selected customers that allows them to look at certain parts of Microsoft source code. The companies are encouraged to make suggestions, but unlike open source software, in most cases, they are prohibited from making the changes themselves. For more information, visit www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx. See open source.

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We believe this will reduce the costs of open- and shared-source software development, encourage software re-use, and reduce time to market by adopting approaches and tools already in use by the open-source community.