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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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This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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