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#1
February 12th, 2004, 06:50 PM
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I stumbled acrost this today, anyone know if this is verified? It could destroy alot of m$'s hold on the market if it is true. http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?i...&category=main
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February 12th, 2004, 06:57 PM
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Saw that on Slashdot and had just posted it in the Cafe. I guess a lot of universities and other people have source code licenses, I suppose it was only a matter of time before it fell into "the wrong hands". I'm sure it can't be a good thing, but the question would be how much of the code is available? Just certain parts or can you compile an OS from the code?
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February 12th, 2004, 07:03 PM
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The neowin server is not available. Anyway. The hackers are going to have a field day with it.
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February 12th, 2004, 07:06 PM
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I don't know how much of it was made avalabe. I do know that NT was built and based on a OS that M$ bought out, but not before it went opensource. So there is a good chance that between the two, a majority of windows is know at a great risk of getting hacked. Also, m$ has said in the past that they can never release any of the source code for ANY window's compenet. They claimed that there was so many security holes that it "would pose a great risk to national security".... Sorry, didn't see the thread that you had made in the cafe.
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February 12th, 2004, 08:20 PM
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Server is busy. Will try later.
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February 12th, 2004, 08:58 PM
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just do what I did, keep reloading the page untill it goes through, it doesn't take long.
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February 12th, 2004, 09:01 PM
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Yeah, I got it to go through (from the other thread). Microsoft should release the Windows source code to the open source community. Why? They might actually make it a good operating system.
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