On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:33, Spider wrote: > okay, I hope I'm not breaking news here about the win2k source code > leak. However, I also hope that you all display enough common sense not > to download it, even if you just want to gloat a bit at the comments. > > The vision of a set of cute lawsuits (SCO style) from MS targetted at > various OSS/FS projects with a wide range of assaults, where the > evidence is simply ISP logs showing an IP downloading said source is > pretty frightening. > > Imagine the reprecautions for projects like > Samba, Gnome, KDE, and other technologies that can be seen as > "infringing" on some of MS turf. Its an easy, blunt lega weapon to weild > against whole projects, stating that all progress past this point is > only because you copied MS sources, weilding a large batch of patents, > tradesecrets and copyright infringement claims and slamming large and > wide. > > please, dont fall for the temptation. > //Spider
Thats a good call spider, There were a lot of people on /. saying the same thing. For more information about the leak the /. article is here (with 1302 comments :o): http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/12/2114228&mode=nested&tid=109&tid=187 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
