full-disclosure - Re: Why Microsoft should make windows open source

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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:47:25 -0400
From: Troy Cregger <tcregger@...nedyinfo.com>
To: Morning Wood <se_cur_ity@...mail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Why Microsoft should make windows open source

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Interesting idea... but like you said, this is M$ we're talking about.

Morning Wood wrote:
>>> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Troy Cregger
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Kennedy Information, Inc
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