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Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code
mario_grgic writes "Apparently inappropriate code comments is one of the reasons according to this story.
I wonder what kind of things developers put in comments that would be so bad for the rest of us to see?"
MS XP Source Code
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###Linux is teh suxxor
###Linus Torvalds is a dumbass
etc etc etc
-thewldisntenuff
My MythTV HowTo
It seems that Slashdot has a bizarre obsession with Microsoft. Ever since SP2, security problems have been few and far between, and even when highly theoretical in nature, they are splashed all over slashdot front page multiple times.
When an open source project completely shuts down due to rampant security problems, it doesnt even make the slashdot front page!
So slashdot, without any security problems to speak of, publishes one story about Microsoft making record revenues and then another that inexaplicably claims Microsoft is "in decline".
This pathetic obsession is really getting tiring... we have been reading this drivel since 1998 and, no, it is still not the year of Linux. Please.. get a new crusade! THANKS IN ADVANCE !
LOL!
......like the one that Russ Nelson made in his blog today. Is anyone else concerned that Russ Nelson, the new head of OSI is a racist loose cannon? See this blog entry: http://angry-economist.russnelson.com/blacks-are-l azy.html. I am urging everyone to write to the directors at OSI to reconsider their decision to make him head of this organization. We don't need people like him representing Open Source!
Ok a lot off topic, so the tinfoil hats wont believe me, but I swear this is true! Somewhere back in 97 the place I was working at had been tasked with recording various video streams coming from different asian countries - anyway, their techs usually spend 15 minutes setting things up before the head honcho's pop up and start doing the business - one time the techs were watching a porno in the background, joking around they pointed the camera at it for a few minutes... Like good little collection staff, we recorded everything (including that)
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Had a few safe draws full of the most boring idiots talking to each other about inane government crap.
Anyway, a year or so later we had a visit from a few high ranking civil servants, and an army General - aside from the flashy lights of the officer fascination panels, they wanted a quick demo of video conference. One of the guys grabbed a tape at random... And you can guess the rest
Fortunately generals have a sense of humor too.
The guy who did it is now flying in the back of P3C orions out of Adelaide. (This last paragraph will confirm it for those in the know - I was there
SBRS was the coolest place to work!