Re: Conspiracy theory: MS leaked the Win2k code *on* *purpose*
From: Tim Johnson (timj1962_at_ip68-9-45-179.cl.ri.cox.net)
Date: 05/21/04
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Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:32:25 -0400
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:36:32 -0500, Jeffrey Silverman wrote:
> Allright, maybe this has been suggested in the past, but as I wait for the
> furnace repair man this morning I thought to myself, "Self, maybe
> Microsoft leaked their code /on purpose/!"
>
> Why? Well, mostly for future FUD. Tempting the legions of rogue
> programmers out there to copy code and stick it in Linux, *BSD, etc. then
> later, say, "See, we told you OSS programmers are immoral!" or something
> to that effect, then pursuing a line of action akin to SCO and shutting
> down the OSS movement (and killing Linux) once and for all.
>
> Oh, well, just speculating. And yes, I guess you could call this post a
> troll, but please don't plonk me as I'm really not a troll generally.
> Thanks. Plus, if this *really* were a troll, I would've crossposted to
> alt.christina.aguilerra.nude and rec.woodworking and
> comp.os.ms-indows.advocacy instead of just two linux groups. So there.
> Hmm. I;m rambling, now, so I'll stop.
>
> Later, all...
You know what..... Ive been thinking in the same lines of this, I wouldn't
doubt it.. Same with Novell source code, but that wouldn't make sense,
according to them they own Linux too.
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