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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:33, Spider wrote: |
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> okay, I hope I'm not breaking news here about the win2k source code |
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> leak. However, I also hope that you all display enough common sense not |
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> to download it, even if you just want to gloat a bit at the comments. |
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> The vision of a set of cute lawsuits (SCO style) from MS targetted at |
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> various OSS/FS projects with a wide range of assaults, where the |
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> evidence is simply ISP logs showing an IP downloading said source is |
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> pretty frightening. |
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> Imagine the reprecautions for projects like |
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> Samba, Gnome, KDE, and other technologies that can be seen as |
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> "infringing" on some of MS turf. Its an easy, blunt lega weapon to weild |
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> against whole projects, stating that all progress past this point is |
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> only because you copied MS sources, weilding a large batch of patents, |
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> tradesecrets and copyright infringement claims and slamming large and |
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> wide. |
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> please, dont fall for the temptation. |
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> //Spider |
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Thats a good call spider, There were a lot of people on /. saying the same |
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thing. |
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For more information about the leak the /. article is here (with 1302 |
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comments :o): |
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/12/2114228&mode=nested&tid=109&tid=187 |
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