David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
By Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet.co.uk
Sep 12, 2008
From Rupert Goodwin's blog on ZDNet UK:
And furthermore, he says, that's a good thing.
A great post over at Scott Hanselman's blog goes into some detail of the Microsoft code Google has included in Chrome. It's all street-legal: the code was made available under a very permissive open source licence back in 2004, and may be the first of Microsoft's steps in that direction.
Hanselman is a senior program manager at MS, and clearly enthusiastic about the whole business. He also writes a mean blog--if you've got any curiosity about some of the gnarly bits inside Chrome, including how it works securely with multiple versions of Windows, then give this the once-over.
Even more interesting than Chrome's internals is this statement:
By Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet.co.uk
Sep 12, 2008
From Rupert Goodwin's blog on ZDNet UK:
And furthermore, he says, that's a good thing.
A great post over at Scott Hanselman's blog goes into some detail of the Microsoft code Google has included in Chrome. It's all street-legal: the code was made available under a very permissive open source licence back in 2004, and may be the first of Microsoft's steps in that direction.
Hanselman is a senior program manager at MS, and clearly enthusiastic about the whole business. He also writes a mean blog--if you've got any curiosity about some of the gnarly bits inside Chrome, including how it works securely with multiple versions of Windows, then give this the once-over.
Even more interesting than Chrome's internals is this statement:
"One of the reasons I wanted to work for ScottGu was because of Microsoft's always improving attitude about releasing source. It's a big company and sometimes moves slow, but more people "get it" now than before."
