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Re: [News] Microsoft Grabs Open Source Company, Hides Source Code

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:34:42 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Microsoft Releases Sony Rootkit Hunter's Tools
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| No Source Code
>| 
>| One aspect of the Sysinternals.com Web site that did not survive
>| the transition to Microsoft is the free source code that Cogswell
>| and Russinovich had made available for some of their tools.
> `----

They can do this because they are now the "original authors" of the code.
They can, effectively, relicense it.  That doesn't prevent you from using
the already open source licensed versions.

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