Dissenting states ask to see windows source

Post #28,250 by Silverlock 2/13/02 1:03:39 PM Reply	Dissenting states ask to see windows source Wow. The US States still pursuing Microsoft have upped the ante by asking the judge to force Microsoft to show them Windows' source code, their reasoning being that they need this to verify whether or not Microsoft is telling the truth when it says that producing a stripped-down and/or IE-free version of Windows isn't technically possible. From the [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24051.html\|Register] With this much manure around, there must be a pony somewhere.
Post #28,255 by tjsinclair 2/13/02 1:53:14 PM Reply	Might backfire Who, outside Microsoft, would be qualified to examine the millions of lines and give a definitive answer? Of course, there could be an ulterior motive here.... Not sure what that might be, but we are talking about politicians, after all. Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits He did of course sometimes have people horribly tortured to death, but this was considered to be perfectly acceptable behaviour for a civic ruler and generally approved of by the overhelming majority of citizens. [footnote: The overhelming majority of citizens being defined in this case as everyone not currently hanging upside down over a scorpion pit] -- (Terry Pratchett, Sourcery)
Post #28,258 by jb4 2/13/02 1:57:42 PM Reply	I'll do it! I believe that I'm qualified...shit, I've been debugging and working around the problems inherent in Micros~1 software for years...no, decades!, so I know I can do it. As far as the million lines of [spaghetti] code goes, I'll hire some "well-trusted" colleagues to help me ("well trusted" == anybody posting regularly at IWETHEY) Any takers? jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #28,267 by ben_tilly 2/13/02 2:37:11 PM Reply	Well you will get volunteers for one thing at least... Microsoft claims to care about security. Why would they object to the inevitable free security audit? :-) /duck Ben
Post #28,341 by jb4 2/14/02 8:57:08 AM Reply	chortle jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #28,263 by marlowe 2/13/02 2:26:05 PM Reply	Lots of eyeballs make any problem shallow. I've waded through some hairy code in my day. They could put me on the team. And I know a bunch of other people who could help. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
Post #28,319 by Andrew Grygus 2/13/02 11:38:23 PM Reply	No risk. You think Microsoft will actually let anyone see the godawful tangle of crap they have made? Their code would be pasted all over the humor section of every hacker and programmer Web site worldwide. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #28,266 by wharris2 2/13/02 2:35:06 PM Reply	Didn't they already show the code wasn't inextricable? Didn't the trial show that IE code could be separated from the OS? Most of the work of government does not need to be done.

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