Abuse the source, Luke.

[Doogee]

quote:Originally posted by mc0282:
let's see here the source contain most of windows kernel, shit load of  crap notepad,media player,sol,etc... so much source code to view at once.. no i am not saying have this source code or do i ? who knows    

  :rolleyes:

[Xeen]

Why does almost every single article on the web regarding this story refer to the Windows source code as "Microsoft's crown jewels" ? Microsoft's golden pile of shit is more like it.

[WMD]

Well the leaked package itself isn't that bad.  It's well organized by directory.  BUT, there's just too much: too much software, too many modules, too many "include" dependencies.  In other words, bloated.  As we all knew already.  

[WMD]

Oh btw, there was a full filelist on the net, but the link doesn't work anymore.  

[Stryker]

i got a file list from a friend, i didn't see any legal problems with posting a file list. http://calyptos.com/slashdot/files.txt

[WMD]

^ Ah yes, that's the same one.  

[restin256]

quote:Originally posted by mc0282:
let's see here the source contain most of windows kernel, shit load of  crap notepad,media player,sol,etc... so much source code to view at once.. no i am not saying have this source code or do i ? who knows    

The code released is about half a gig, wheras the full code is 40 gigs. It's enough to rewrite and start an open source alternative, yes.

[Duo Maxwell]

I think this about sums it up for Billy Gates, as for the rest of the suckers still usin' M$ products, what else can I say other then they've all been screwin' themselves since they decided to go M$.

[Doogee]

HAHAHAHAHA

That list is pure gold!

[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by restin256:
The code released is about half a gig, wheras the full code is 40 gigs. It's enough to rewrite and start an open source alternative, yes.

The full code ain't 40GB.  Whoever first said that must've meant 40 million lines (~600MB).  Because 40GB of code is over 2 billion lines.  That's impossible.  :eek:

[flap]

Actually 50gb, apparently.

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invitedtalks/lucovsky_html/sld015.htm

[restin256]

What confuses me is how the fully compiled code can shrink by 1/80th, unless the rest of the code includes the patches.

[idlepython3]

HAS anyone seen anything on the news like cnn or anyone reporting on this? i would be curious how far reaching effects this has and how much it is being talked about outside this circle.

[idlepython3]

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Feb04/02-12windowssource.asp

"We are committed to helping our customers protect their networks and will take all appropriate steps to meet this commitment."

[flap]

quote:Originally posted by tronsixpoint.o:
HAS anyone seen anything on the news like cnn or anyone reporting on this?

Check cnn.com, maybe?