Re: {OT} Windows source code leaked to the internet

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From: Moses Lim
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:48

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W wrote:

> "Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:c0le3r$190cjo$1@ID-151056.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> In article <c0l023$184srl$1@ID-200043.news.uni-berlin.de>,
>> "Paul" <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>> >* ProteanThread * wrote:
>> >
>> >> does this mean that Windows is now freeware ?  :o)
>> >
>> >No, but it means a lot of security patches may be obsolete.
>> >Time for us all to move to Linux!  :)
>>
>> If having access to fragments of source code compromises security,
>> then why do you recommend Linux?
> 
> What I think is far more amusing, whilst everyone is bashing M$ left,
> right, and center over their security and lack of preventing the leaking
> of the source code, no-one has mentioned much that it was acquired through
> a hack over at MainSoft (as written) who are Unix developers, running
> Linux for most of their development platforms, and the system holding the
> SDK, was Linux based.

my guess is that if the system holding the code was microsoft based ... it 
would have probably been broken into earlier :)

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From: Moses Lim <hyspeed@zeta.org.au.no.spam.pls>
Subject: Re: {OT} Windows source code leaked to the internet
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