The Chronicle: Microsoft Gives Researchers and Students Access to Code for Web-Services Platform

The Microsoft Corporation is attempting to win the minds of academic researchers and college-aged programmers by offering universities more than a million lines of source code from the company's much-vaunted .NET programming platform for Web services.

It may be much-vaunted, but I would suggest - as others did in the article - that more than a million lines of code is pretty indigestible. I also wonder just what it would do in terms of contaminating students when they go looking for work with Microsoft's competitors. Microsoft's track record suggests that they'd resort to litigation to protect their IPR. Most universities and professors I guess will be reluctant to place themselves in such a vulnerable position.