Microsoft has finally confessed to using open-source in a forthcoming product: Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition. The reason why Microsoft uses BSD-licensed TCP/IP for its network stack was the same reason almost everyone does: The BSD TCP/IP works well, and its socket-based API (application programming interface) was already becoming the accepted way for computers to work with each other. I had gone through an article by Mr.Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in which he is discribing all these matters. One word in that article is some more naughty...He says that "Of course, Microsoft could have come up with something that duplicated what MPI(Message Passing Interface). does, but this is one field where Microsoft can't move in and make up its own rules".
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