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Possible Windows source code leak - Rhiannon - 02-21-2004

so come to a happy medium and use fat32


Possible Windows source code leak - SJ Zero - 02-21-2004

Quote:Yes, yet again, more spamming about Lindows.
And I have two words for ya about MS stealing: prove it.

Why? The statute of limitations expired, and they freely admit that they coded MS Basic for the altair using code printoffs they stold from DEC back when they were in college.

Also, they lost the case against Stacker so many years ago, which accused that they tried to steal stacker and put it in dos 6.2. There's a reason why drivespace came out in 6.22, the only change made in that version.


Possible Windows source code leak - TheBigBasicQ - 02-21-2004

Quote:So you hate windows, but when you have linux you try your hardest to run windows on it?

Oracle, wine and winex exist for one reason only which is that it makes the transition from Windows to Linux easier. I too am currently using Linux as my desktop OS. But I am not using Wine or WineX since I like the Linux ports/equivalent programs of the M$ for Linux =).


Possible Windows source code leak - adosorken - 02-22-2004

nEdit, after about 30 minutes of configuraing, makes a pretty decent Notepad clone.

Tongue


Possible Windows source code leak - Zack - 02-22-2004

* Zack now figures out that he's out of date...
Find me one business that never stole or did any illegal activity to gain popularily/sell more products.


Possible Windows source code leak - Rhiannon - 02-22-2004

Quote:/me now figures out that he's out of date...
Find me one business that never stole or did any illegal activity to gain popularily/sell more products.

I think that is a little offensive to those who own businesses, like me, and have never stole or cheated customers. There are a lot of honest businesses. Just cuz MS is an ass and likes to lie and cheat doesnt mean everyone else is like this. And since when is it ok to do something just becuz "everyone else does it"? This is a child's mentality.


Possible Windows source code leak - Diroga - 02-22-2004

Mac and Linux are open soure right? so what the problem with windows being open source?


Possible Windows source code leak - oracle - 02-22-2004

^^^^ ?????

Microsoft sells windows, that's why...


Possible Windows source code leak - Zack - 02-22-2004

Mac? Open source? Really?
Linux? Yeah.
Like Oracle said. Precisely. And if they're open source, and someone can gain exploit information from it, it could be bye-bye to all the servers that use Windows NT/2000.


Possible Windows source code leak - Rhiannon - 02-22-2004

Quote:Mac? Open source? Really?
Linux? Yeah.
Like Oracle said. Precisely. And if they're open source, and someone can gain exploit information from it, it could be bye-bye to all the servers that use Windows NT/2000.

MacOS has been open source since 1999, since the Darwin project where they based the OS on Unix (very smart). Linux has been open source for decades, and Unix since the 60s. There still isnt a major exploit out there that can affect servers in a mass form as windows exploits do. Windows not being open source hasnt stopped people from exploiting the hell out of windows. And whoever is using NT or 2k as a webserver should be taken out and beaten.