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

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From: W
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:02

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"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

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