“Microsoft, trying to protect its software empire from open-source rivals such as Linux, on Thursday said it is expanding a program to share the underlying code of its Windows operating system. Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative, which it started last year to counter the image that it jealously guards its products, is being expanded to let systems integrators–companies that help other companies manage their computer systems–peek at the Windows blueprints.” Read the rest of the report at ZDNews.
Microsoft Reveals More Windows Code
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…who’s assuring that the code they hand out really is the code Windows is built from. Who’s controlling if they don’t just rip it apart and present them with a new version of the sources that lacks all the potentially delicate lines? Does this all make sense anyway?
It does make sense and is the same thing I was thinking of. What stops Microsoft from just removing those lines and creating a special version to show to people.
The day Microsoft makes all of its code availiable for free use and modification, is the day that I download the source, read it and compile it for my self. Until that day I will run FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Debian GNU/Linux, and advocate the use of these over any Microsloth program. I have used all of the above (including MS) and have found that they do everything that I could want an OS to do and more! Not to mention stability and security over Winfroze.
But when pigs do fly, that doesn’t mean they fly very well!
And I fly quite well.
Just what i’ve always wanted the source to the worst disk cacheing algorithm in the world, among a long list of other don’ts in my operating system theory books.
.. the arseagon ..
Disk cacheing????
Is that the VM sysytem because i have know idea…
I personally think linux thrashes my hard drive a heck of alot more if you are talking of vm systems Windows XP runs fine for me… low disk access sits quiet alot of the time.
Runs for days at a time
“Runs for days at a time”
Damn, Linux can’t compete with that. Linux only runs for months at a time for me.
but my g/f turns it off after a few hour, she mumbles something about sleep. Has she not heard of caffine?
Hell I’ve had my new 2K Pro Box up for 3 months without a reboot. Only reason I had to shut it down is to add a new hdd. It’s just as stable as anything else, in the hands of an edumacated user.
Hey I know for a fact that if you apply enough thrust pigs will fly.
Its the landing that gets messy.
I could Leave it running for months at a time but why would i want to i turn of my computer at night when i am not useing it, well maybe the cat would use it but it’s the wifes cat, oh and our server at work runs 2000 server and lets see its been running for about 5 months now.
…I said that until that day … blahblahblah … I forgot to add that I’ll still advocate the use of said OSes, and that I’d primarily just be able to use the M$ code as a don’t do this guide, and also to wipe my arse, although I suspect it will crash my toilet and send a fecal specimen to the NSA only for them to discover that I’m full of crap!
From ZDNet article:
“An equivalent property elsewhere in the corporate world would be the recipe for Coca-Cola.”
Um. Yeah. People are pining for the details of that secret mixture of water and sugar. I’ve always wanted to compile my own cola!
Rob
“…the source to the worst disk cacheing algorithm in the world, among a long list of other don’ts in my operating system theory books.”
I’m sure that the open Desqviewx people would love to see it. That way they’d be able to allow Desqview/X to run win9x in a box like the way the old desqview /x was able to run win3.x in a box…