I wonder how this will affect other projects, such as ReactOS and Wine. Exciting.
Windows XP source code has leaked
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#12> Would you believe more than 1% of computers worldwide are still using Windows XP?
Probably higher -- XP is still popular in China and supported by third party companies there.
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#13I wonder how this will affect other projects, such as ReactOS and Wine. Exciting.
I'm not sure if they want to go this way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit
https://wiki.winehq.org/Clean_Room_Guidelines
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#14I wonder how this will affect other projects, such as ReactOS and Wine. Exciting.
They can't look at it without running the risk of copyright infringement [1].
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#15> And that could be used for good reasons — like people trying to create Windows emulating software on Macs, for example
Not really. It violates the major principle of clean room reverse engineering. That's why Wine developers are strictly avoiding such kind of situations. It can taint the result with legal problems.
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#16https://twitter.com/RoninDey/status/1309275918943301636 https://anonfiles.com/Ffn8u2Yaoa/Microsoft_leaked_source_cod...
Interesting looks like theres also Xbox source code in there? Is that old or new? I don't really keep up with the reversing scene
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#17Gizmodo's baking metaphor is really really awful.
How is it awful? Can you give me a better analogy?
Because the source isn’t a recipe in this analogy it would be akin to buying a cake mix and following the cooking instructions.
A further development of the analogy would be one could try to replicate the cake mix by reading the list of ingredients and using their knowledge of baking and trial an error to replicate it as closely as possible vs getting their hands on the exact formula used by the maker of the cake mix.
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#18> Would you believe more than 1% of computers worldwide are still using Windows XP? Probably higher -- XP is still popular in China and supported by third party companies there.
I saw XP quite a bit while I was there too.
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#19Does this mean we’re about to see a wave of new exploits? Or has this code been out there for a while?
Governments, Universities, and large corporations have had ongoing source licenses for Windows back to the 95 days.
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#20I wonder how this will affect other projects, such as ReactOS and Wine. Exciting.
It's radio active for those projects if some reason they tried using this info.