ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reports on Microsoft's increasing talk about making Windows source code available to its customers. Don't hold your breath, though — the big M's not about to open-source Windows! Foley writes . . .

“Contrary to popular myth, Microsoft doesn't hate everything about open source. While Microsoft officials publicly vacillate between declaring Linux either the most hyped operating system or the biggest threat to Windows, in reality, the company has learned some powerful lessons from its open-source competitors.”

“In fact, in an unprecidented move, during the past six months Microsoft has made available to 'hundreds' of its larger customers copies of its closely guarded Windows source code, said Doug Miller, group product manager with Microsoft's Windows .Net server marketing group.”

” 'Our goal is to make this (source code) available to many hundreds of customers,' Miller said, during an interview at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo trade show in New York this week . . .”

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