Arne Vogel wrote:
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Hi Arne,
I have the same opinion and agree with you. :-)
To support it, I added some comments ...
I've never taken the people seriously who claim that OSS is full of
stolen code, simply because
a) Closed source is typically quite hard to get.
b) Source from other project
On Friday 13 February 2004 00:10, Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
> Hi guys, i know this is totally OT, but if you don't mind, check out
> slashdot concernig %subject
>
> GPG public keys available at pgp.mit.edu
well, maybe i'm just raving, but could it be that it was a commercial move by
M$? I mean, they
Grendel wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Matt Garman uttered the following immortal words,
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Again it is a myth that windows is not secure as linux, I bet if you take
the bug reports of the systems and componenets (linux+apache+ssh etc vs
window and components) you will probably find the same numb
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On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:39, Grendel wrote:
> Again it is a myth that windows is not secure as linux, I bet if you take
> the bug reports of the systems and componenets (linux+apache+ssh etc vs
> window and components) you will probably find th
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Matt Garman uttered the following immortal words,
>
> What scares me, truly, is that it only takes one bonehead to do a copy
> and paste job from the MS code to a (previously) legitimate OSS
> application. And, as you say, that gives Microsoft, with their vast
> financial an
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:02:54PM -0800, Eric Paynter wrote:
> Matt Garman said:
> > This would serve a huge purpose for OSS: accountability, and and
> > easy means to verify source code (who made it, where it came from,
> > etc, etc). The intent is to help OSS "prove" that it is
> > legitimate, t
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 21:46, Arne Vogel wrote:
> Greg wrote:
>
> > Seriously the only real value I see in this is for someone to search
> > for security holes by looking at the source. Otherwise I see no
> > reason anyone should be interested in Mickey$oft code.
> >
> > Greg
>
> Doesn't "sheer c
Greg wrote:
Seriously the only real value I see in this is for someone to search
for security holes by looking at the source. Otherwise I see no
reason anyone should be interested in Mickey$oft code.
Greg
Doesn't "sheer curiosity" count as a reason then? Though I wouldn't
want to risk a lawsuit j
Matt Garman wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:34:32AM +0100, Spider wrote:
other technologies that can be seen as "infringing" on some of MS
turf. Its an easy, blunt lega weapon to weild against whole projects,
stating that all progress past this point is only because you copied
MS sources, wei
Seriously the only real value I see in this is for someone to search
for security holes by looking at the source. Otherwise I see no
reason anyone should be interested in Mickey$oft code.
Greg
"Wazne sa tylko te dni, ktorych jeszcze nie znamy."
- Marek Grechuta
Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
Hi guys
Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
Hi guys, i know this is totally OT, but if you don't mind, check out
slashdot concernig %subject
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Old news, really. The Win2000 core source code has been on the net for
years.
-> http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/artic
This has also crossed my mind... I admit it really _does_ sound like
conspiration theory, but then again i believe that micro$oft would not
stop at _anything_ to get its way. Even if that means using such
tactics.
I just hope for the sake of Linux, all of its users, and in the
long run "freedom of
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:34:32AM +0100, Spider wrote:
> other technologies that can be seen as "infringing" on some of MS
> turf. Its an easy, blunt lega weapon to weild against whole projects,
> stating that all progress past this point is only because you copied
> MS sources, weilding a large b
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 12:29, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
> > OH MY GOD!! It's true... I wonder if the words "microsoft" and
> > "security" will ever be mentioned in the same sentence again...
>
> I've never been able to say the two words in the same sentence and keep a straight
Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
OH MY GOD!! It's true... I wonder if the words "microsoft" and
"security" will ever be mentioned in the same sentence again...
I've never been able to say the two words in the same sentence and keep a straight face ;)
--
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Network Administrator
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OH MY GOD!! It's true... I wonder if the words "microsoft" and
"security" will ever be mentioned in the same sentence again...
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:53:36 -0500
Peter Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Feb04/02-12windowssource.asp
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:20:28 -0800, senectus muttered:
...
> It's a hoax.. and not a very good one I believe..
It looks pretty real to me. It's hard to make up ~700MB of fake source
code, and I'll be doing some spot-checking (on Reversi, perhaps) to see if
some behaviours match.
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Andrew Farmer
On 12/02/2004 9:16 PM, senectus wrote:
I didn't say that it IS a hoax.. I said I believe it's a hoax..
It is not a hoax, at least, Microsoft does not think so.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Feb04/02-12windowssource.asp
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btaining
the source.. and I would know what to do with it if I had it anyway.. :-P
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the comments on that sites forum.. bunch of Lusers... :-P
It's a hoax.. and not a very good one I believe..
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> Hi guys, i know this is totally OT, but if you don't mind, check out
> slashdot concernig %subject
>
I hope that you all display enough common sense not
to download it, even if you just want to gloat a
Hi guys, i know this is totally OT, but if you don't mind, check out
slashdot concernig %subject
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