This will be interesting. I learned a lot from the mainsoft leak.
Windows XP source code has leaked
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it awful? Can you give me a better analogy?
I didn’t mind their analogy, but I think an analogy is a poor way to explain such a simple concept. Why not just say, “the code that the developers wrote” or something along those lines? I don’t think the concept of source code is inaccessible to laymen.
> Why not just say, “the code that the developers wrote”
Because some readers might not know what is the source code. Or they might have a vague idea but they might not understand what it means for the source code to be released.
> I don’t think the concept of source code is inaccessible to laymen.
I don’t think the article claims that. On the contrary; how I see it, the article explains the concept.
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#23Does 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. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
Worth noting that "open-source" doesn't imply a license to use the software in any way. You can put up a project on Github with "all rights reserved" (though you obviously grant Github rights to distribute it when you upload it).
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#25Creator of the torrent posted on reddit about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/iz46du/the_windo...
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#26Gizmodo's baking metaphor is really really awful.
I found the whole article very low quality. I don't recall the last time I read anything on Gizmondo, but I wasn't expecting that.
> Can you explain what a source code is to me like I’m five?
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#27This will be interesting. I learned a lot from the mainsoft leak.
Would you mind sharing some of those things your learned? I'm sure people here would be interested to hear about it (I know I would!).
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it awful? Can you give me a better analogy?
I didn’t mind their analogy, but I think an analogy is a poor way to explain such a simple concept. Why not just say, “the code that the developers wrote” or something along those lines? I don’t think the concept of source code is inaccessible to laymen.
Well, was that an early draft, or is it after the editors went in and made changes/corrections? How many chapter are in the manuscript?
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#29I wonder how this will affect other projects, such as ReactOS and Wine. Exciting.
That would be really bad for these authors to download or look at leaked code. That's exactly how you get yourself in legal troubles.
That's why they have policies to not look at any leak, and even with this ReactOS and Wine already had their share of controversies in the past.
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#30I wonder how this will affect other projects, such as ReactOS and Wine. Exciting.
This is not the first time Windows code leaks. I also have a vague recollection of one of these projects actually having to rip out and rewrite a subsystem because it turned out to be too close to original Windows sources found in one of those previous leaks.
In short, this leak likely won’t affect any project that is seriously trying to reimplement substantial parts of Windows, if they care at all for US law.