Re: Interesting read :-)

Only 220 Mo from the 40Gb (!!) of source they say...
Chris
"Jason Judge" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Made the BBC news today, which is unusual.
>
> I think it is all a plot by MS to get people upgraded to XP. They have
> released the source to enough far-east countries now to be sure it would
get
> leaked - they *must* have known it would. With NT's source released, NT
now
> has all the drawbacks that MS has been saying is wrong with Open Source
for
> years, so they will have to recommend all customers upgrade to XP. What a
> cunning plan. Those last few million customers holding on to NT, and
> refusing to upgrade something that has worked for years, have been eating
> into the profits of MS. MS got a shock when they realised that Win98
support
> had to be extended due to the fact that many home users still rely on it,
> and this nicely forces the hands of the business users.
>
> It also means it is fair game for MS to search the open source archives
for
> anything that looks vaguely like MS code, because they can now claim that
it
> violates copyright since the cat is out of the bag and that all open
source
> developers can be assumed to have looked at the code. If you do look at
it -
> keep it to yourself - don't blab ;-)
>
> That's my view :-) Let's face it - this is *not* bad for Microsoft in any
> way.
>
> -- JJ
>
>
> "Carl P. Corliss" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/12/2114228.shtml?tid=109&tid=187
> >
> > --
> > Carl P. Corliss
> > Data Applications Engineer
> > Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
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