States Wants Micro$ofts Source Code

The state attorneys general still pursuing the antitrust case against Microsoft have asked a federal judge to force the company to show them the inner workings of the Windows operating system. In a bid to pry open one of the worlds most valuable pieces of intellectual property, the states argued they need to see the Windows source code in order to verify Microsofts claim that it is not technically feasible for the company to offer a stripped-down version of the operating system. "Microsoft cannot base its defense on the design of its source code and simultaneously deny the litigating states the opportunity to test those arguments by interrogating the code," the states said in their filing.
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