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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: Re: W2K source "leaked"? On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:06:41 EST, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf said: > I think they should release the source for NT anyway. They > are pretty much dropping it, and they say it is so badly > made they can hardly fix it, well, why not let the REAL > hackers out there who can make an OS, take a look at it. > Maybe they are a little nervouse? Maybe people would see it > was badly made? Wither way I know ALOT of people who STILL > swear by NT. With proper skill, NT can be made hard. 2,000 > is similar, and I think it would be great if they finally > said "Ok, fine, here is the source". They can't do that because of the truly astounding overlap between the NT codebase and the Win200[03]/XP codebase. Think MS04-07, and ask if they can afford to have NT code out there. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040213/da63b163/attachment.bin
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