Source Code for the operating system especially Windows, was extraordinarily valuable. It should be on par, if not better, with the world’s most valuable proprietary recipes, such as the secret formula for making the Coca Cola.

But, source code has not always been kept secret? The answer should be yes way back before Microsoft withhold their source code in order to protect the proprietary operating system, i.e. Windows. I recently came across a Web site that called Show Us The Code. On the front page, you will read an open letter written to the Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer.

And today is the opening day of the “Show Us The Code Campaign” launched.