AnalogBoy's Journal: Oh, the ignorance of the masses

Jesus. People here just wont stop yapping about how microsoft won't open their source for anyone.

True enough they won't open it for you or I, or government. Its secret source code. It's some of the most valuable source code in the world. However, microsoft DOES open their source to true academics under STRICT NDA's.

So...
Quit.. Yer... BITCHIN.. If you REALLY want to look at/dis MS source code, perhaps you should just go to school. About 2 years into it perhaps you'll realize you're taking life a BIT too seriously.

From the page:
Microsoft® makes source code to Microsoft operating system products like Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows CE available to universities and other "not-for-profit" research institutions at no charge. Currently, there are over 100 universities worldwide with our source licenses.

http://research.microsoft.com/university/NTSrcLicInfo.asp

Who really cares about windows sourcecode?

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I mean, who has the right to whine about that..

Linux zealots?
No! Surely not. They're about "freedom", aren't they? Freedom includes the freedom not to give my sources to others. Freedom is also about tolerating each other's opinions, even if it's Microsoft's opinion.

Windows users?
I have yet to see a real Windows user whine about the non-availability of the Windows sources..

WTF, what do you want to do with the windows sources? Say "HA! There's the backdor! Gotcha!" - hey we all know there are backdoors (NSAKey anyone?). Still 90% of all desktops run windows.. those managers obviously don't care about backdoors.

But it would be interesting to see if M$ really copy'n'pasted the BSD TCP/IP stack ;) (WinBSD?)