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Microsoft Opens Code Just Slightly More

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you're-a-king-you-can-see-part-of-it dept.

ctar writes "This story on Bloomberg.com details Microsoft's new program to open the source to parts of Windows in order to compete with Linux, especially in the government sector. Microsoft's spokesman is making these announcements directly: They say governments involved will be invited to Redmond to meet w/ security engineers, and view testing procedures. Countries will also be able to incorporate their own encryption schemes 'based on Microsoft's software'."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I said "step pause turn pause pivot step step", not "step pause turn pause pivot step pause!"

    1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you rock!

  2. all is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    even when you pull another 13 hr day:
    a bong hit
    a couple of beers
    a bratwurst with kraut
    a repeat of the Man show (drunk pilots)

    and all is right with the world.

  3. Oh, come on... by robpoe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We all know that Microsoft won't release the source code because they cannot remove all the embedded comments in the source code..I've organized them into product categories..

    MS Office:
    Fuck clippy

    MS Bob:
    Bob is SOOOO ghey
    Soviet Russia OWNS BOB

    Screen saver controls:
    We will DOMINATE your WORLD

    Kernel code:
    Gates can blow me
    That guy in goatse.cx is GATES!!!

    IE:
    -- 1. Make shitty browser
    -- 2. Give it away
    -- 3. Make it go into dominance.
    -- 4. ???
    -- 5. Get your ass sued. (Oh shit! Where's Profit!!!)

    --
    = Grow a brain...
  4. Le Carre's brilliant article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The United States of America has gone mad
    John le Carré

    America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War...

  5. Re:Something to Think About by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do you talk to yourself a lot?

    how many people do you know who use "--" as a dash, and add commas, capitalisation and talk the same as you.

    replying to yourself is the to make yourself look more popular is the saddest thing i have ever seen.

  6. Re:Something to Think About by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's probably a university student, used to using Latex, which uses '--' for an en dash. It's also the standard for an en dash in Project Gutenberg texts. I know that I tend to use this style in my posts -- it can't be that uncommon.

  7. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA by m1chael · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    dude... give up it!

    --
    I know you are psychotic, but please make an effort.
  8. Re:Something to Think About by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And as everybody (who is me) now knows, Latex is outstanding for any sort of project, and compared to the cost of upgrading to WinXP to run OfficeXP, requiring me to buy a whole new computer to run all that crap, it's an outstanding deal.

    Everybody (who isn't me) should also begin to use Latex.