Heck Freezes Over: Windows 2000 & NT Source Code Leaked!?!?

[Joe Matt]

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=17509&category=main

HOLY! Wow. Atleast M$ is now open source... :p

[Trashed20]

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=17509&category=main

HOLY! Wow. Atleast M$ is now open source... :p
bummer :(

[D.J. Fluck]

I think thats fake, but if it is true...im laughing :)

Edit: Hey I guess it is real...or maybe its a scam by Microsoft for everyone to have to go out and get "security" software :p

[Clark Gilbert]

I think thats fake, but if it is true...im laughing :)
Update: Microsoft's Tom Pilla has confirmed the leak stating: "Today we became aware that incomplete portions of Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 source code was illegally made available on the Internet"

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Feb04/02-12windowssource.asp

[Heretic121]

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=17509&category=main

HOLY! Wow. Atleast M$ is now open source... :p
its about time HAHAHAH!!!! its not worth the money!!!

[evulish]

Heh. Looks like WINE may be getting a bit better soon :)

People keep saying this is the 'downfall of MS' Yeah.. right. More like the best time to buy stock :) I'd like to. Maybe it'll prompt a whole bunch of patches a whole lot sooner. MS is probably going to have to redo the way they store passwords, and change a few other things.. as those can all be reversed with this. Overall, I'm not worried. I'm nicely secured behind a NAT'ing router and I update/patch regularly. I wonder if MS 'borrowed' any code from things. Maybe Windows will be better because of this :) I believe all of the Windows API is in it.. so maybe programs can be optimized a bit more.

[rbayer]

Looks like WINE may be getting a bit better soon


NO!!!!!

Anybody involved in any form of main-stream open source project won't be touching this code with a 100-ft pole. Just think what would happen if MS found out that some of their code (or code based on their code) ended up in an OS project--it would be SCO all over again, except this time they'd be right!

That said, it's still soooo tempting to just poke around in it for a while to see how a multi-million line, multi-million dollar program is constructed...


-Rob

[D.J. Fluck]

That said, it's still soooo tempting to just poke around in it for a while to see how a multi-million line, multi-million dollar program is constructed...


I wouldn't....they're probably watching out for people closer then the RIAA....;)

[blindguyinanorg]

my unlce programs for MS im going to see what he knows and ill post it.

[sirbleedsalot]

If any one ever found out that you looked at that code you can kiss any proggaming job goodby