Shoutbox

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Originally posted by EvilSeph
Actually, it's quite easy to get access to Microsoft source. They freely release it to universities, organisations etc.. once they've signed an agreement not to release the code.

Note: not FULL source

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Try it, you'll see it's not easy

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Originally posted by Johnny_Mac
Seems weird... im waiting for reuters or bbc to mention it first... then i might believe it.

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That makes no sense. BBC or Reuters saying "Neowin.net posted that the code might have been leaked" doesn't warrant anything

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Originally posted by NoName
* NoName imagines....


Bill Gates is being escorted by gaurds and army planes to an underground tunnel. Hey inserts a key turns it , Enters a password , has his eye scanned and his voice recognized. He than walks down and emits 5 different passwords to five different gaurds and is let into a room with 17 computers. Each computer holds bits of the windows code and is not connected to the internet. They have 600000000000000000000000000000000000000000000gb encryption

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Then Bill, while sending an e-mail to his friend Linus Torvalds, accidentally attaches the wrong file in the message.

30 minutes later, Neowin posts a sticky article about Windows' source code leaked

EDITED by Chrono: Dont double post ...
Posts merged

EDITED by Guido: Sorry, posted them at different times, didn't notice I had posted before Thanks.

Tis a real shame though...all the good sites are down because of server over load But least this took some traffic off the mozilla sites

Got a huge article about it on Plus!Lite thanks to EvilSeph
http://www.pluslite.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=613

hmmmm
bad news for ms i guess
tho it was bound to happen eventually


regarding: http://www.pluslite.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=613
(the link above) the bbc part of the post (the top section) is actually  from 'Friday, 27 October, 2000' just a confusion you can see the date on the page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/993933.stm

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Originally posted by Guido

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Originally posted by NoName
* NoName imagines....


Bill Gates is being escorted by gaurds and army planes to an underground tunnel. Hey inserts a key turns it , Enters a password , has his eye scanned and his voice recognized. He than walks down and emits 5 different passwords to five different gaurds and is let into a room with 17 computers. Each computer holds bits of the windows code and is not connected to the internet. They have 600000000000000000000000000000000000000000000gb encryption

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Then Bill, while sending an e-mail to his friend Linus Torvalds, accidentally attaches the wrong file in the message.

30 minutes later, Neowin posts a sticky article about Windows' source code leaked

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Originally posted by NoName
and is not connected to the internet

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Originally posted by True Neo

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What?

He could have inserted a 1-month-free AOL cd in the meanwhile

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Originally posted by NoName
* NoName imagines....


Bill Gates is being escorted by gaurds and army planes to an underground tunnel. Hey inserts a key turns it , Enters a password , has his eye scanned and his voice recognized. He than walks down and emits 5 different passwords to five different gaurds and is let into a room with 17 computers. Each computer holds bits of the windows code and is not connected to the internet. They have 600000000000000000000000000000000000000000000gb encryption

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tsk tsk... too much tv     then again what can u expect

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Originally posted by Guido
He could have inserted a 1-month-free AOL cd in the meanwhile

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AOL?  god anything but aol lol..

It's confirmed that a part of the source is leaked. I just hope the right part leaked

Like an NTFS part, for better NTFS support in Linux (though that, ofcourse, would be illegal )

From: Slashdot

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We have identified over one million lines of our IP in Microsoft's source code. While I cannot share most of them because they are a trade secret, here are three of the most glaring examples:

#include

for( ; ; )

if(!stop) {

Many of these lines have been copied verbatim several thousand times. We do not want to, but are forced to sue Microsoft for unlicensed use of our intellectual property.
We will institute a licensing program called gplSource which will allow Windows users to obtain the legal rights to use our IP. This cost will be significantly discounted to early adopters.
Already at least three Fortune 500 companies have seen the validity of our claims and have paid these fees on a per-CPU basis to continue using Windows. While we cannot divulge their names, they do exist. Really!

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Another very nice one:

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Gandalf: No! Don't ever use it!

Frodo: How do we know it's source to the One OS of the Dark Lord?

Gandalf tosses a CD-R into the burner, and burns Windows.Source.Code.w2k.nt4.wxp.tar onto it. When the CD is done, there are glowing fiery letters on it.

Frodo : I can't read the fiery letters.

Gandalf : There are few who can. The language is that of Redmond, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue, it says "One OS To Rule Them All, One OS To Find Them, One OS To Bring Them All And With The NDA Bind Them"

Frodo: Take the source code Gandalf!

Gandalf : Noo! Do not tempt me with it! I dare not take it! Not even to keep it safe! You must understand Frodo, that I would be tempted to use this source code, for good. To disclose hidden API's, help the WINE project. But through me, all of open source would be tainted, and the LawyerWraiths of The Dark Lord will sure destroy us.

Frodo : But it cannot stay here!

Gandalf : No, no it can't.

Frodo : What must I do?

Gandalf : It must be sent to the fires of /dev/null, where it will be undone, and we will be kept safe from the Lawyers of Evil.

So remember folks, don't download it, or look at it, or attempt to build it! It is evil, and answers only to the hand of The Dark One.

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[wishful thinking]Maybe sum1 decent got the source code and will correct the absolute tit of a job that MS did.[/wishful thinking]

probably not

it isn't full source code anyway.. MS would get scared if the kernel leaked

it's only 660MB out of 40GB