[A83] Re: Including source files? [OT]


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[A83] Re: Including source files? [OT]




>No kidding.  I would imagine it would take at least a week or two to
>completely recompile Win2k on an average modern day PC.
>
>Getting ISO's of Microsoft products is very easy.  I had a copy of the
>corporate version (no product protection) of Windows XP before it was
>released.  Supposedly it was leaked by an inside employee.  The friend I 
>got
>it from had a funny story regarding that.  One of the friends he gave it to
>installed it, had problems, and in a stroke of pure brilliance, calls
>Microsoft tech support.  They ask him what he is running, and he tells them
>Windows XP.  "Umm, sir, that's not out yet."  Oops...click.  You just have
>to wonder about some people.
>
> > Sure it's good.  Code evolves that way.  People will distribute pirated
> > copies of anything - getting a pirated ISO of Win2k would be much easier
> > than compiling one - so making the product open source is irrelevant.

Heh.  I've gotten some 40 odd emails today from sourceforge today.  They're 
all the same.  Anyone else had this problem?

--Joel

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