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Microsoft grapples with leak of source code (CNN)Microsoft grapples with leak of source code (CNN)Posted Feb 13, 2004 18:56 UTC (Fri) by beejaybee (guest, #1581)Parent article: Microsoft grapples with leak of source code (CNN) I smell another attack on linux... If the press can be persuaded that releasing M$ source is a security risk (and it seems that the bait has been swallowed whole) the next step is an assertion that open source software is immensely insecure. Naturally I don't believe this but the press probably will.
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Microsoft grapples with leak of source code (CNN) Posted Feb 13, 2004 20:36 UTC (Fri) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] If the press can be persuaded that releasing M$ source is a security risk (and it seems that the bait has been swallowed whole) the next step is an assertion that open source software is immensely insecure.Maybe, but I think this strategy will backfire, if it is a strategy. They run the risk of accentuating the fact that its mostly MSFT software that is insecure, whether the source code is available or not.
Microsoft grapples with leak of source code (CNN) Posted Feb 17, 2004 19:21 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] It appears that the blame will be pointed at Mainsoft, the Israeli company that produces a Windows-on-top-of-Unix layer as a commercial product and that has licensed at least part of the Windows source from Microsoft. From what I've been told, their fingerprints are all over the released code (there are references to Mainsoft in the release), so it appears that someone stole it from them (or it's an inside job). No, I haven't seen the code, nor am I interested. I have used their product in the past. Mainsoft has issued a statement, which indirectly acknowledges that suspicion points to them.
More detail on Mainsoft culpability Posted Feb 17, 2004 19:36 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] See this BetaNews article. There is a Linux connection, in the form of a Linux core dump that appears in the distribution.
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