How is that relevant? And isn't that exactly what Red Hat, Novell, and all the other Linux distributors count on?
And frankly, the companies who participated in that program got a little more than "nothing" for their participation. Many of them insisted that they be able to review the source code, if MS had their druthers, even those people would not have been able to see it. That review and capability was a compromise to big business having little or nothing to do with "open source" altruism, on either side. You may be surprised at the kinds of things billion dollar, non-MS corporations ask of their software vendors.
On topic: MC2 was a good game, but it was all ground pounding. Not sure the engine would be suited to a space RTS without significant rework. It would certainly be worth it for people to downbload and look, and even more worth it if it is like the Allegiance release to download and PLAY it.
It's kinda cool that MS is doing this with the occasional games. I thought there was another MS game that was released, in addition to Allegiance, but I am getting senile. It's not making them any more money, and they have moved on to bigger, "better" tech, so, it's collecting dust as it is. Might as well get it out there. Nice PR boost (MS does something genuinely nice) for little effort and expenditure (apart from bandwidth, initially).
But I guess we can bash Windows and MS now, that's more interesting than free games and learning how game making works
