Re: Interesting read :-)
Marcel van der Boom <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:55:38 +0100
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Jason Judge wrote: > That's my view :-) Let's face it - this is *not* bad for Microsoft in any > way. > I basically made the sama analysis as you did. There might be surprise in the future though, the source code is out there now and unavoidably people *will* be confronted with it some way or the other. MS has now the advantages of both the source being looked at by more people and generating revenues by their proprietary model. It's easy to trust on the curiosity of people, no matter how illegal it is, people *will* look at the code. The community has always surprised me with innovative ways to do certain things (as has MS by the way, albeit in a different area). I'm looking forward to an anonymous posting of a patch against that leaded sourcecode. I bet if the patches are good they will not be followed with legal action. interesting times. marcel