holy bananas! MS = Open Source??? kinda?

[xMerCLorDx]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/01/15/microsoft.code.ap/index.html

[Uranium-235]

the key there is government and government agencies. No public code. That would be disasterous. All windows sysems would get hacked to death. Cept me, I'm running windows98 :P

[eviltechie]

i still have windows 1.0 here on a floppy disk

downloaded it off IRC

antique!
and unhackable!
lol

[xMerCLorDx]

the key there is government and government agencies. No public code. That would be disasterous. All windows sysems would get hacked to death. Cept me, I'm running windows98 :P


yeah i know thats why i added the "kinda?" thing in there :P 8)

[TheRogue]

eviltechie, how can you hack a computer which probably can't use the internet? or networking in general? (i'm presuming that windows 1.0 wouldn'y have these features)

[xMerCLorDx]

i know i'm probably being to literal by saying this.. but nothing is unhackable.. and to hack, it doesn't have to be on a network either.

[TheRogue]

truen to hack is to problem solve, to tink, to code

however to crack is malacious entry of a computer/a program.. if we're being pedants here :)

in real life, windows 1 iirc only runs on 386s, probably are no security features at all, as at the time problem wasn't a big priority for microsoft (unlike now :rofl: )

[xMerCLorDx]

i remember needing security writing useless things and printing them on win 1.0 ( everyone was hacking me!!! ) lol. 8)

[Omega]

I still think that the code would be likely to get out by releasing it to that many governments. Also, I don't think Microsoft would release the entire code, but exceprts from it, that it deems applicable. I don't think it would, by any means, be in a state where it could be modified, and recompiled into a custom operating system.