Not exactly "public domain" from what I have read.  Apparently W2K source
code was "leaked", quite illegally.  Microsoft are not admitting to this,
but are investigating it all the same.  Apparently, people have been able to
compile the source to Windows 2000.

And yes, if this was deliberate, it does jeopardize some important open
source projects such as Wine and Reactos.  If these developers even *look
at* this source code, it could be construed by MS that the open source
projects these people are working on are then "tainted", and that they are
in breach of copyright.

Not a good thing, by any stretch of the imagination.  If this is silly games
by MS, then they are just as bad as SCO in my book.

Rgs
Ian.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Wouter van Ooijen
> Sent: Saturday, 14 February 2004 12:22 am
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [pic:] What MPLAB version for win95... or Wine?
>
>
> > And besides, from what I've heard on the news this morning,
> > the Windows source code (at least part of it) seems to belong
> > to the "public domain" now :-) :-)
> > Note that *I* do not think that is something good, by anyway...
>
> I am sure this was deliberate. Now it will be *much* easier
> to make sure
> that 'open source' software gets a bad reputation!
>
> :)
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
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