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MS to share source code
voidmain:
You guys make it sound like M$ is going "open source" and that is not even close to being true. First of all, *you* are not going to see any M$ source. They are only going to release specific pieces of source code to specific people/groups depending on the need and with extreme restrictions and costs.
HPC GUY:
quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
Let us know when you do, I'll be sure to check out your ph@t jamz. Of course I'll be downloading from WinMX cuz im a slimy freeloader, no prob there right? ;)
--- End quote ---
hahaha hey im down for supporting artists too but half of the shit i own is on mp3
;) .
oh and void, i never posted this article in any thought that m$ is going open, i just thought it was amusing the they actually let some people even view a few lines of their crappy programming.
WaWAR_FA:
oh man the second the universities get ahold of the source code you cabn guarentee its giong to be all over the net.
straight hack style, i gotta get me a copy of it so i can finally take windoze apart.
voidmain:
But you still fail to realize that we are *not* talking about Windows code. Nobody is going to see that code. They are only talking about the compiler code. Big frickin' deal, who would want to look at that? GCC is a far better compiler anyway and you have always been able to get the source for it. They are only trying to enslave schools to help them improve their proprietary code. And by the sounds of it, they will probably be successful in those schools that are already M$ nazis as some of you have said they have become.
[ August 05, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
sporkme:
this amounts to a hill of shit.
MS is placating the U.S. (unsophisticated shithead) courts' decisions to "release the source code" so "windows is not so dependant on ms applications" to open so-called "competition" in the market.
when you are sleeping with the enemy, what do you have to lose.
the problem is the legislation is about a decade behind the technology, and the gap is getting bigger all the time.
besides, what do they have to lose? the law wont catchy up with the TCPA until it is too late, and we are all borg-like slaves to his most excellent gates-ness.
(ok that was over the top) but this ain't shit. it will be interesting to see the old code picked apart, but the compilation is so different by now, fuck it.
this is NOT the beginning of some open source movement in the microslit community, they will never, ever, do that unless some BRANIAC GENIUS LEGISLATOR sees the need to pry the fucker open.
BARF
[ August 05, 2002: Message edited by: sporkme / bob ]
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