Re: [SLUG] MS goes Open Source - sort of

[James Wilkinson]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, chesty generated:

>On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:12:12AM +0100, Jim Hague wrote:
>> Today's food for thought. You have obtained the entire source for, say, W2k and
>> O2k. What do you do with it?
>
>Fix some bugs and send patch back to MS? maybe not :)

Actually, I'd prolly browse some of it when really really bored, looking
for programming errors (and finding many)... "they use _what_ for a
character input??... and this buffer has a hardcoded size?"

The number of exploits that could be found for W2K given the source.  A
crax0rs dream.

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