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Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« on: 9 May 2005, 10:56 »
Hidden in deepest darkest recesses of Redmond there is "Linux Lab Man"!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20050506/tc_zd/151451

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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #1 on: 12 May 2005, 19:37 »
Being open soure Linux is at a disadvantage here because Microsoft and easily look at how it works. Linux programmers can't do the same to Windows apart from reverse engineering decompileing it which is also illegal. Microsoft are being sensible in this case, it makes sense, they need to know their opposition inside out and this isn't hard where Linux is concerned as it's open for all to see.
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #2 on: 12 May 2005, 19:51 »
Reverse engineering for the purposes of interoperability is legal in the EU.
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #3 on: 12 May 2005, 20:34 »
I've heard this before, is this a new thing?

The EU will fine Micrsoft anyway if they don't release more of their "trade secrets"

But who will say how much information they have to make public?

Micorsoft have made the Windows source code availible to a few goverenments so why can't they just make it availble to the EU court and then they can come to and agreement on which bits secrets they should give up.
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #4 on: 12 May 2005, 22:30 »
Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
I've heard this before, is this a new thing?

The EU will fine Micrsoft anyway if they don't release more of their "trade secrets"

But who will say how much information they have to make public?

Micorsoft have made the Windows source code availible to a few goverenments so why can't they just make it availble to the EU court and then they can come to and agreement on which bits secrets they should give up.

I think its because microsft doesnt want the courts to see all the "HACK THE PLANET FROM THE INSIDE" comments thats all over microsoft source ;)
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #5 on: 12 May 2005, 23:07 »
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I think its because microsft doesnt want the courts to see all the "HACK THE PLANET FROM THE INSIDE" comments thats all over microsoft source ;)

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bash-2.05b$ egrep -r -e "HACK THE PLANET FROM THE INSIDE" /mnt/drived/src/win2k/private
bash-2.05b$
Apparently not. :p
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #6 on: 12 May 2005, 23:27 »
You got the source??

where can i get it google didnt find it :(
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #7 on: 12 May 2005, 23:51 »
Anywhere except the Web. ;)
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #8 on: 13 May 2005, 01:05 »
fileshare?
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #9 on: 8 June 2005, 13:31 »
Hey, do you guys think that Microsuck will rip off a Linux distro, and then sell it off as the newest Microsuck OS that is stable...blah, blah, blah? I could really see them doing that especially if they are going to get rid of NTFS, and go with something else...we can't see the code, so we wouldn't know if they were ripping off Linux...oh...maybe they're getting a license from SCO?lol Afterall, they are backing it!lol

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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #10 on: 8 June 2005, 18:15 »
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Hey, do you guys think that Microsuck will rip off a Linux distro, and then sell it off as the newest Microsuck OS that is stable...blah, blah, blah? I could really see them doing that especially if they are going to get rid of NTFS, and go with something else...we can't see the code, so we wouldn't know if they were ripping off Linux...oh...maybe they're getting a license from SCO?lol Afterall, they are backing it!lol

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I can't see it happening. They'd more than likely be caught if they tried it, _alot_ of people would check it out.
If they wanted to come our way, they'd probably use something like FreeBSD (like Apple did).
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #11 on: 8 June 2005, 20:28 »
So long as they release the scource code there'd be nothing wrong with it. If Microsoft made Linux it'd be similar to Linspire and be shit as a result.
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #12 on: 9 June 2005, 00:57 »
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So long as they release the scource code there'd be nothing wrong with it. If Microsoft made Linux it'd be similar to Linspire and be shit as a result.

Agreed.
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
« Reply #13 on: 9 June 2005, 05:02 »
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad though? I would really like to see a Microsoft Linux distro, lol
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Re: Meet the Head of Microsoft's Linux Lab
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