From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 5 16:56: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net (slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A217337B4CF for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:55:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 66265 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2000 00:55:57 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-chat@Freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 66249 invoked by uid 0); 6 Nov 2000 00:55:55 -0000 Received: from ldialup139.slkc.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (207.224.203.139) by slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 6 Nov 2000 00:55:55 -0000 Message-ID: <3A060092.281BE95F@uswest.net> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 17:51:30 -0700 From: Joe Warner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: chat@Freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) References: <20001105155818.A92095@citusc17.usc.edu> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------A87A2EF1CE0A1DC95912E4BE" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------A87A2EF1CE0A1DC95912E4BE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LOL!! Seriously, I heard a recent rumor that Microsoft is or has developed it's own version of Linux. Has anybody else heard of this? Cheers Joe Kris Kennaway wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Dan Browning ----- > > Microsoft Announces Surprise Cooperative Agreement > > In a surprise press conference made this Friday evening Microsoft CEO > Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft will be releasing the source > code for the upcoming Windows operating system dubbed Whistler. > > "We have already begun work on the project, and have for the past > three months collaborated with a small company of enterprising young > programmers from Russia," said Ballmer in an impromptu press > conference. Ballmer appeared visibly shaken throughout the press > conference, and several times made references to how "skillful the > Russian programmers were", and how Microsoft "[didn't] want to do > anything to threaten [their] relationship with them." > > "We at Microsoft are confident that by allowing peer review of the > already best-selling Windows operating system and Office suite we will > be able to offer our customers a more polished product," continued > Ballmer. "By allowing the Open Source community [or "hackers"] access > to the Windows source code, we will be able to ensure that the > operating system ships with even better security than that which you > have already come to expect from Microsoft." > > In what is perhaps a policy-changing move, Microsoft has worked with > the Russian programmers to remove bugs and fix security problems > before releasing the code for scrutiny to the Open Source community. > It is yet unknown whether this change in policy will include release > of source code for previous versions of Microsoft products, or whether > this will have any bearing on the Justice Department decision to split > Microsoft into two separate companies. > > Posted on Fri 27 Oct 11:50:00 2000 PDT > Written by Eugene > > --- > > Shamelessly plagiarized from Segfault > (http://segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=39f9cdfd-08ab7ae0). > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- FreeBSD = The Power to Serve ..Simply put = FreeBSD Rocks! --------------A87A2EF1CE0A1DC95912E4BE Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LOL!!

Seriously, I heard a recent rumor that Microsoft is or has
developed it's own version of Linux.  Has anybody else
heard of this?

Cheers

Joe
 

Kris Kennaway wrote:

----- Forwarded message from Dan Browning <danb@cyclonecomputers.com> -----

Microsoft Announces Surprise Cooperative Agreement

In a surprise press conference made this Friday evening Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft will be releasing the source
code for the upcoming Windows operating system dubbed Whistler.

"We have already begun work on the project, and have for the past
three months collaborated with a small company of enterprising young
programmers from Russia," said Ballmer in an impromptu press
conference. Ballmer appeared visibly shaken throughout the press
conference, and several times made references to how "skillful the
Russian programmers were", and how Microsoft "[didn't] want to do
anything to threaten [their] relationship with them."

"We at Microsoft are confident that by allowing peer review of the
already best-selling Windows operating system and Office suite we will
be able to offer our customers a more polished product," continued
Ballmer. "By allowing the Open Source community [or "hackers"] access
to the Windows source code, we will be able to ensure that the
operating system ships with even better security than that which you
have already come to expect from Microsoft."

In what is perhaps a policy-changing move, Microsoft has worked with
the Russian programmers to remove bugs and fix security problems
before releasing the code for scrutiny to the Open Source community.
It is yet unknown whether this change in policy will include release
of source code for previous versions of Microsoft products, or whether
this will have any bearing on the Justice Department decision to split
Microsoft into two separate companies.

Posted on Fri 27 Oct 11:50:00 2000 PDT
Written by Eugene <eugene_v@yahoo.com>

---

Shamelessly plagiarized from Segfault
(http://segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=39f9cdfd-08ab7ae0).

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