-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ - -- Troy Cregger Lead Developer, Technical Products. Kennedy Information, Inc One Phoenix Mill Ln, Fl 3 Peterborough, NH 03458 (603)924-0900 ext 662 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGE/K9nBEWLrrYRl8RAnG+AJ9cEZ27nDfUCWdszY1a1WqUfoXR7wCfYJPt Sl/kdNBlEzz2CdHgnTEt3kc= =KsFI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
