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Of-course. If it has been leaked, it's in the wild, and replicated, this is how the Internet is working.
If you can use google you will find it within 5 minutes
Yea, got it. Its a 43GB torrent.
I wonder if XP can run win7 PE binaries.
That would be cool. An open source OS that can run modern windows software.
Good luck in court.
Have you heard of ReactOS?
Yea, but their ntoskernel seems buggy. (Its a copy after all).
I suspect the true XP ntoskernel is similar to modern windows 7 OS
Im not too well aware with this but isnt using any part of the NT kernel illegal? Cant M$ just sue the hell out of your for it?
Yes it can.
You can't release open source software based on a proprietary code. Code leaks are punishable by copyright law if got caught.
Then you have to call it a clean room implementation.
Anyone that happens to get caught with leaked Microsoft source code is unemployable as a programmer in the future. Anything you ever write will be under suspicion and a major liability to your employer, should they pop-up on Microsoft's radar for any reason in the future.
some funny reactions
Putin wanted to hack on it a bit.
MSFT has for decades allows universities and governments to have copies of source under an NDA.
I'm thinking that with that much source, Microsoft could have easily fingerprinted the code (move a space before a semi-colon here, misspell a word there, change a comment inconsequentially over here) to determine exactly where it leaked from.
The guardian as reference re something related to Putin? Seriously? One might as well link to a Trump-hater site for an article on Trump or to a pro-Trump site for an article on say Schumer.
Yes. Factually
I'd be interested in the WinXP source though and in actually running some good quality analyzers against it to get some solid and trustworthy data on its safety or lack thereof. Frankly, I'm not so sure that linux is safer.
Universities and goverments had access to the Windows Research Kernel, but this leak has all the stuff needed to compile XP, not just the research kernel.
The leak was done by a crazy conspiracy guy who included videos about bill gates vaccination and population control.
Yeah I'm not much of a fan of the Guardian. I just picked the first search result for a quick link.
We had a thread on Putin & XP before because there was a burst of news coverage when a picture appeared of him at his desk with XP running.
I'm sure the Russian gov't is capable of providing him a secure computing environment. My suspicion is that given his generation, he doesn't spend a lot of time actually working on his computer. He has fleets of minions to given him briefings and take his dictations.
It seems an unnatural way to work to me - I think of computers as power suits for the mind - but Putin is 67 and may be more accustomed to working with aides rather than directly working on documents himself. I have no doubt he knows how to use a computer and probably does when he wishes, but I suspect he doesn't spend a lot of time writing emails or working on spreadsheets. Could be wrong.
Seems you're not alone in this thought :-)
Damnit, I'm going to have to have another talk with my mom over that.
It is official now, the source can be compiled into a full OS.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-xp-leak-confirmed-after-user-compiles-the-leaked-code-into-a-working-os/
So are you still afraid to touch the source code?