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Microsoft stealing code from Linux: Absurd or Plasuable. Hear me out!
muzzy:
It could be illegal to use leaked w2k sources as well since the sources weren't published legally. Also, from what I know of reversing the windows stuff and from hearing about the leaked sources, it's VERY GOOD quality.
WMD:
--- Quote ---Also, from what I know of reversing the windows stuff and from hearing about the leaked sources, it's VERY GOOD quality.
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If it was so good, then why has MS had so many problems fixing/improving it? I mean, every time they fix something, it ends up breaking something else eventually; there was lots of this during the NT4 service pack cycles. Blaster was created by a service pack. Et cetera.
If the answer is complexity, rather than brokenness, then I still question why they would create such a system. I wonder if Singularity is simpler in design than Windows. I'm sure you could comment on that, muzzy?
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: WMD ---If it was so good, then why has MS had so many problems fixing/improving it? I mean, every time they fix something, it ends up breaking something else eventually; there was lots of this during the NT4 service pack cycles. Blaster was created by a service pack. Et cetera.
If the answer is complexity, rather than brokenness, then I still question why they would create such a system. I wonder if Singularity is simpler in design than Windows. I'm sure you could comment on that, muzzy?
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I also would like to know if the Singularity kernel is simpler than the NT kernel.
Pathos:
--- Quote from: muzzy ---It could be illegal to use leaked w2k sources as well since the sources weren't published legally. Also, from what I know of reversing the windows stuff and from hearing about the leaked sources, it's VERY GOOD quality.
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quality? In most highly professional software outfits the code is at the utmost quality. The comes a point in any language where you are writing it at as high quality as possible. And considering its microsoft itself I'm sure they would be all upto date with the current technologies.
The problem with windows is not the quality of the code but design flaws and unpatched holes in the model.
Kintaro:
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The problem with windows is not the quality of the code but design flaws and unpatched holes in the model.
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Actually its not really design flaws, it simple programming mistakes that have plauged everything, Linux, BSD, etc for all time.
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Microsoft would never use GPL code cause it would destroy them if they got caught. I bet there are plenty of hackers analysing windows components for some evidence of it and they haven't found any yet.
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Bullshit, if they got caught they would get away with it by paying out the developers in question. Microsoft are very powerful, they get away with lots of things like ANTITRUST TRIALS and other things. The government does nothing. More people would be pissed off over job losses and economic problems if they shut down MS than there would be people happy that the government made an ethical decision.
People LIKE Bill Gates and it gives him a really good political standpoint. People like employers and LINUX is not an employer in all practical purposes. You can get a job involving Linux but it is still mainly a hobbiests hack.
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