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Agrees TO SHARE DATA ON WINDOWS WITH GROUP

Microsoft, whose software powers about 95 percent of the world’s personal computers, reached an agreement on licensing terms that will allow open-source products to connect to the Windows operating system.

Microsoft will license proprietary information on how Windows shares files and printers with the non-profit Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, which will make the data available to open-source developers working on a file and printing system called Samba.

The agreement will “allow Samba to create, use and distribute implementations of all the protocols” to allow so- called workgroup servers to connect with Windows, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said in a statement Thursday.

Full Story Via The Mercury News

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