Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

[dave@kd0yu.com]

On 27 Oct, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
[snip]
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_993000/993933.stm
> 
> I hope nobody will buy Microsoft products from now on, now that they are
> not only filled with internal bugs but also with external ones introduced
> by the guys from Leningrad... :)
> 
> But it is probably Microsoft's own original way of "releasing source under
> GPL". Maybe they don't have the guts to admit that the proprietary
> software model (in OS market, where Linux dominateth!) is a failure so
> they make it look like some script-kiddie posted their source listings on
> the Usenet (or wherever he is going to post them?) and so they "have no
> choice but to release windoz under GPL" :)
> 
> Regards,
> Tigran
> 
[snip]


It makes you wonder...
Having been a /real/ breakin, I would have thought MS would have hushed
any kind of press release.
The other side may be that the culprit tried to blackmail MS after the
fact.

If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release,
we should see the source on web sites soon.  Then we can see how bad it
really is.  Maybe even fix it.

-- 
Dave

I come from the net....  I search through systems, people, 
and cities to find this place... mainframe, my home.
My format: Guardian, to mend and defend.
Reboot!

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