The task involved writing more than six million lines of software code.
He probably couldn't write any software code or design a circuit board.
Of course, the software code is distributed as open source but not everyone wants to compile it themselves.
But the ruling does not require that the software code itself for the Microsoft products be removed.
"There is an enormous difference between putting a piece of software code in a box and having a working service."
"He knows how to architect small pieces of software code."
It seems the foundation, whose purpose is to persuade people to donate their software code to the greater good, needs money.
Japan had wanted full access to all the software codes.
But software code remains unchanged by time or use.
The additional lines of software code impose virtually no material costs.