On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Matt Garman uttered the following immortal words, > > What scares me, truly, is that it only takes one bonehead to do a copy > and paste job from the MS code to a (previously) legitimate OSS > application. And, as you say, that gives Microsoft, with their vast > financial and legal resources, an opportunity to start doing a lot of > damage to the OSS world.
Surely this will be detected, after all all patches say to the kernel pass through the maintainers then a few trusted leitenants then torvalds himself. First of all let me make this clear this is only a portion of the windows source code the size of the full source code is around 100GB. Anyway the way MS work they distribute the code, say I am working on IE, then I only get the IE related source, they are not idiots to put the entire codebase for one person to steal. If this really is windows source code, then let people go over it and learn something, for example if it has information about activex and other propriotory things, then we would be idiots not to go over it and figure out how it works, also a good look at certain drivers might help us as well. Again it is a myth that windows is not secure as linux, I bet if you take the bug reports of the systems and componenets (linux+apache+ssh etc vs window and components) you will probably find the same number of bugs. We too have had our horrible bugs which people seem to be conviniently forgetting, that bug which made every kernel prior to 2.4.23 able to be rootkitted which was exploited to corrupt the debian servers. There was a same bug in the 2.2.x releases which also did the same thing. There still are a lot of people running kernels older that 2.4.22 unaware of the above and still waiting to be rooted. If you take the componenets, sendmail was(is?) buggy as hell for years and a major security risk, as was named, ssh etc. Windows is a stable and reliable server so long as you update your system well, the same goes for linux, if you dont update your system regurlarly you are in for trouble. Grendel. -- Would you like a smoke and a pancake? A cigar and a waffle? Pipe and a crepe? Bong and a blintz? I have a Dutch accent, isn't that weird??? --Johann Van Der Smut -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
