Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-04 Thread Andras Simon
2016-05-04 11:19 GMT+02:00, Neil Thompson : > I'd be a little worried about ransomeware with wine - I remember a virus > some years ago which did ugly stuff to excel files (IIRC), and it came in > through wine and trashed stuff in my $HOME. All my wine stuff now is done >

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-04 Thread Neil Thompson
I'd be a little worried about ransomeware with wine - I remember a virus some years ago which did ugly stuff to excel files (IIRC), and it came in through wine and trashed stuff in my $HOME. All my wine stuff now is done in sandboxes. On 3 May 2016 at 18:40, Niels Kobschaetzki

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-03 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 16/05/03 15:08, Fernando Cassia wrote: On 5/2/16, jd1008 wrote: How does that open up Linux to more viruses? You mean that crackers will suddenly start to use exploiting bugs in Linux-software to break into windows-boxes because a tiny amount of users will install this

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 5/2/16, jd1008 wrote: >> How does that open up Linux to more viruses? You mean that crackers will >> suddenly start to use exploiting bugs in Linux-software to break into >> windows-boxes because a tiny amount of users will install this (after >> all only command line

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-02 Thread jd1008
On 05/01/2016 10:08 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: On 16/05/01 18:33, jd1008 wrote: On 05/01/2016 04:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/04/16 11:42, jd1008 wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/ Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-01 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 16/05/01 18:33, jd1008 wrote: On 05/01/2016 04:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/04/16 11:42, jd1008 wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/ Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit This may be to do with the new feature

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-01 Thread jd1008
On 05/01/2016 04:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/04/16 11:42, jd1008 wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/ Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit This may be to do with the new feature Microsoft is implementing in

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-01 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/04/16 11:42, jd1008 wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/ Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit This may be to do with the new feature Microsoft is implementing in Windows 10. The ability to invoke a Bash Shell from the

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-04-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/23/16 18:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 12:30 +0200, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:42 AM, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_pract >>> ice/ >> Is there a list policy that allows posting

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-04-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 12:30 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:42 AM, jd1008 wrote: > > > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_pract > > ice/ > Is there a list policy that allows posting anything as long as the > subject's prepended

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-04-23 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:42 AM, jd1008 wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/ Is there a list policy that allows posting anything as long as the subject's prepended with "OT"? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-04-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 19:42 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practic > e/ > > Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit > > Recruiters target penguinistas for Azure sales joy Yes, completely OT. Please take this

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-04-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 4/22/16, jd1008 wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/ > Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit > Recruiters target penguinistas for Azure sales joy Since when Microsoft cares about the legality of its

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-04-22 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting jd1008 : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/ Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit eh? secret open?? d Recruiters target penguinistas for Azure sales joy -- users mailing list

OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-04-22 Thread jd1008
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/microsoft_open_source_practice/ Microsoft headhunters seek Linux folk for secret open source unit Recruiters target penguinistas for Azure sales joy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: