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States Demand Windows Source Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-refuse-secret-source-software dept.

Zeb writes: "Looks like the states who are continuing the anti-trust case don't believe MS' claim that they cannot provide a stripped down version of Windows. They want MS to release the source code so they can verify MS' claims . Maybe MS shot itself in the foot here?" The Register has a story as well.

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  1. Re:I don't see WHY they want this by DrSkwid · · Score: 1, Troll

    I really don't see the reasoning behind this

    Gimme Karma!

    If you can't see, you'll never get any

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  2. Source code? Better yet... by fm6 · · Score: 1, Troll
    People often argue that MS deliberately introduces hidden features in order to trip up developers of competing applications. The evidence against that is that the applications that have hidden-feature-induced bugs include MS's own products!

    I'm not the first to point this out, but it bears repeating: having access to the source code and understanding the source code are two very different things.

    Which makes me wish that somebody was running a Windows clean room. If you needed to work with a Windows API with incomplete or incorrect documentation, you just submit a question to the Windows clean room, and they figure out what the API really does.

    Did I say that Microsoft doesn't do hidden features on purpose? I lied! It's all part of their monopolistic conspiracy! The antitrust settlement must require them to set up a clean room!

  3. They probably used the Unix V6 code... by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 1, Troll

    And the entire source code is full of comments that read:

    "You are not expected to understand this".

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  4. Windows Rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    F slashdot right up the ass with a baseball bat!

    Microsoftwindows is THE one god who's ass you little magots should kiss. The source is to great for you fat ass greas munkies to even be in the same room as.

    Down with apple's ossuX as well.

    F cmd.rIcantwritetaco

    F bloatos and f rob and his limo.

    "People have toe wright to be stupid, just some people abuse that privilage"

    -Piller of Balance Legacy of Kain