Windows Code Leaked
Thursday, February 12, 2004 by kongit | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
utoh for Microsoft and maybe us if some hacker gets a hold of it and starts doing bad things with it.
see here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37648-2004Feb12.html
see here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37648-2004Feb12.html
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kongit
Reply #22 Friday, February 13, 2004 8:20 PM
Reply #22 Friday, February 13, 2004 8:20 PM
actually the wine people wouldn't mind it, and if its the right part somebody might figure out how to run exe's natively in linux 
messybuu
Reply #23 Friday, February 13, 2004 9:11 PM
Reply #23 Friday, February 13, 2004 9:11 PM
Also, it wouldn't be the first time that the OS community imitated Microsoft and others (i.e. Evolution and KDE come to mind).
bakerstreet
Reply #24 Friday, February 13, 2004 11:23 PM
Reply #24 Friday, February 13, 2004 11:23 PM
lol, well, I think you are both overlooking the OPEN in open source. If they took code from MS's leaked source, it really wouldn't be well hidden in an open source OS, would it? Closed source, on the other hand, can borrow and tuck away anything they like.
...and 'imitated' is one opinion, another would be that MS thinks they originated everything, and in fact imitated a great deal.
Like I said, I'm no Linux user, it doesn't do what I need it to do at present. I just see a call-report pattern around here. Mention Linux - Witty Retort. Seems needless.
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...and 'imitated' is one opinion, another would be that MS thinks they originated everything, and in fact imitated a great deal.
Like I said, I'm no Linux user, it doesn't do what I need it to do at present. I just see a call-report pattern around here. Mention Linux - Witty Retort. Seems needless.
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Reply #21 Friday, February 13, 2004 7:40 PM
The only way this would be an issue is if there is a seriously exploitable flaw in this code. If this section was chosen specifically to release in the wild, there is that possibility.
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