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Article #503Re: {OT} Windows source code leaked to the internet
From: techie
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:11
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:11
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:02:58 +1000, 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. But wait, I thought nobody ever tried to hack linux systems because linux just doesn't have as much of the market as Windows does? I really do wish you MS shills would make up your minds. :o/
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From: techie <none@dontspamme.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,aus.computers
Subject: Re: {OT} Windows source code leaked to the internet
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:11:06 -0600
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