Microsoft is committed to not suing the open source community

On February 21, Microsoft officially revealed some very significant changes in its business strategy towards creating a broader compatibility with third-party software products, including source software. open.

Specifically, the software company will widely publish technical documents related to API application programming procedures and interfaces of a number of completely free core products. The first step Microsoft will publish is documentation of application communication procedures in Windows Server operating system.

Next is the documentation of the necessary procedures and APIs to help Office 2007 be better compatible with other document format standards. But Microsoft did not disclose any information about plans to support the Open Document Format (ODF) standard in Office 2007.

However, the company recently launched the Open Source Interoperability Initiative initiative to promote partnerships, provide compatible technical support and testing for open source projects.

The goal of publishing this technical document is to help Microsoft core software products fully support standards and better handle data from third-party software.

The most important business strategy change this time is that Microsoft pledged not to sue open source software developers who used its procedures to develop source software platforms. open non-commercial.