Re: Windows goes open source

["Ken Hagan" <ken@alacrity-it.com>]

I don't know about tens of gigs of source but I do remember that
Microsoft was bragging during the release of NT 4 that it had more lines
of source code than MVS.  I remember nobody being impressed by this and
the mainframers were a bit relieved to see code even more legacy bloated
than theirs.

Four hundred megabytes of source code probably represents a good chunk
of the code for the operating system itself unless nobody did a make
clean before swiping the code. 

It'll be enough to give Microsoft another gigantic pie in the face and
maybe a few good worms but people in general won't learn.

-----Original Message-----
From: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org
[mailto:silug-discuss-owner@silug.org] On Behalf Of john doe
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:09 PM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Re: Windows goes open source

looks like its from a company called mainwin, they are the guys who
actually 
wrote the IE4 for unix that was released.  given the size of the archive

though, no way this is a complete source set for 2k.  it takes 30 megs
to 
archive the linux kernel source so you can compile a file under 1 meg.
i 
would bet a full archive for 2k source code would be in the 10s of gigs 
range, maybe even 100s of gigs (uncompressed).  in any event, i am
REALLY 
curious as to how this got leaked.  I have serious doubts to anyone at 
mainwin doing this on purpose given how easy it would be (and how easy
it 
actually turned out to be) to track down.

this is a bad thing for linux development :\ "your honor the defendents,

codeweavers, could not have contributed to WINE without having read
through 
the sourcecode of ours which was illegally leaked out to the
internet..."

Casey

im hoping damage gets minimized


>From: "Stephen D. Reindl" <sreindl@apci.net>

>
>http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/12/2114228.shtml?tid=109&tid=187
>
>I've tried to get to the server in the article several times. A very
>popular place !
>
>Ha ha ha
>
>Steve
>
>
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