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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:57:49 -0700 From: "Morning Wood" <se_cur_ity@...mail.com> To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk> Subject: Re: Why Microsoft should make windows open source >> >> M$ will never let us h4x0rz into their source (willingly) but I agree >> with you James, the open source paradigm has regularly outpaced M$ and >> many other large corporate software producers where it comes to >> addressing bugs, security holes, and in many cases feature requests. Who knows... mabey they will get smart. IMHO M$ should, and could, release an opensource OS. OpenWin , WindOS, call it whatever. Release a small basic win32 platform ( kernel / window / desktop / explorer ), that could leverage existing development tools, to allow the comunity to provide extensible applications that readily conform to existing, public API's. Provided with runtime libraries already available in todays applications, the underpinning would support existing win32 applications. Packaged with win32 / cygwin versions of POSIX tools, perl, php and python, it would be a very robust, basic OS. ( reactOS + freeDOS ? ) Ooops... I forgot... this is Micro$oft I was talking about.... ..what we need is another Linus Torvalds to build and release a "newcode" win32 compliant kernel / base that uses.... anyway, M.W _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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