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

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From: W
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:15

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<mathew@spamtrap-spiesareus.yi.org> wrote in message
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> There are two companies with access to the source code, and several
> governments. That's all.

No, it is the SDK, that is a totally different thing to having access to the
source.

What was exposed last week was the Porting SDKs for Win2k and WinXP which is
used by MainSoft and others to create Unix version/ports of some Windows
Visual C++ applications.

www.microsoft.com/ie/unix IIRC was all done by MainSoft using the Windows
Porting SDK.

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