Tesseract Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Microsoft announced its participation at the first Digital Identity World 2002 Conference Thursday in no small fashion, pledging to open up some of the code for its controversial Passport digital identity service. The announcement was made by the Redmond, Wash. concern's Craig Mundie, senior vice president and chief technical officer, during a keynote address for the Denver-based trade show. Under the aegis of the company's oft-scorned Trustworthy Computing initiative, Mundie detailed the Passport Manager Licensing Program, which vows to make source code more available so that interested parties can bundle applications with Passport. This play falls under the company's Microsoft Shared Source Initiative, in which the outfit loosens its grip on code "while preserving the intellectual property rights that sustain a strong software business." Read More.... Source: Internet News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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