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ZDNet Editors, please notice the error in headline. I don't think the story meant Microsoft was giving away the TOP of SQL code.

Peek - #
To glance quickly.
# To look or peer furtively, as from a place of concealment.
# To be only partially visible, as if peering or emerging from hiding:

Peak -
1. A tapering, projecting point; a pointed extremity: the peak of a cap; the peak of a roof.
2. Abbr. Pk.
1. The pointed summit of a mountain.
2. The mountain itself.
3.
1. The point of a beard.
2. A widow's peak.
4. The point of greatest development, value, or intensity: a novel written at the peak of the writer's career. See Synonyms at summit.
5. Physics. The highest value attained by a varying quantity: a peak in current.
6. Nautical.
1. The narrow portion of a ship's hull at the bow or stern.
2. The upper after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
3. The outermost end of a gaff.
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Truth in Advertising  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/23/05
Exactly--should have read "Microsoft mulling SHARED source database  Jeff Spicoli | 02/23/05
Correct!  alterego_z | 02/23/05
So turn the tables on them  Michael Kelly | 02/23/05
Not me  alterego_z | 02/23/05
N/T Good point there alterego  eulagree | 02/23/05
That's another issue altogether  Michael Kelly | 02/23/05
And that differs from  IT Scion | 02/23/05
Dipping their what?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/23/05
You're right bad choice of words.  IT Scion | 02/24/05
Agreed  seosamh_z | 02/23/05
MS never said Open Source  NonZealot | 02/23/05
Yes  Michael Kelly | 02/23/05
So, FireFox isn't really open source.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/23/05
Well....  nucrash | 02/23/05
Open source? Yes.  Michael Kelly | 02/23/05
Really grasping at straws  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/23/05
??????  AmusedAtItAll | 02/23/05
Blah, blah, blah... At least you agree to the facts.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/24/05
So your wife had kittens....  Mack DaNife | 02/24/05
Spell checkers and editing  quietkey | 02/23/05
WOW...  eulagree | 02/23/05
shared source != open source  Chad_z | 02/23/05
Chad...  eulagree | 02/23/05
We know  seosamh_z | 02/23/05
yes  Jeff Spicoli | 02/23/05
Too true  Jeff Spicoli | 02/23/05
This is open source...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 02/23/05
Shared source not  Linux User 147560 | 02/23/05
Semantic gobbledygook  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 02/23/05
No  Jeff Spicoli | 02/24/05
But...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 02/25/05
Nope  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/24/05
Missing the point...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 02/25/05
I'm all right, Jack  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/25/05
Open source comes under many licenses.  B.O.F.H. | 02/23/05
BOFH, for once we agree...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/24/05
RE: This is open source...  Kaiwai | 02/24/05
Con job?  NonZealot | 02/24/05
Can I compile this "shared source" code?  whisperycat | 02/24/05
So what...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 02/25/05
But isn't this a little...  Mack DaNife | 02/24/05
Why hypocrisy  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 02/25/05
MSKerberos  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/25/05
Spot on John.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/24/05
No Axe deliberately ignores the facts in order to make a "point"  whisperycat | 02/24/05
No, it is you that refuses to look at he facts.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/24/05
As a matter of fact, yes  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/24/05
Please pay attention John....  brendthess | 02/24/05
All disruptive tactics  Wagadonga | 02/24/05
Shhh  rapson | 02/24/05
ROFLMAO (nt)  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/24/05
Well, I notice  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/24/05

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