Poll: Will they find Linux code in the windows source code?

[TommyVercetti]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1526831,00.asp

Further investigation by BetaNews revealed the machine was likely used by Mainsoft's Director of Technology, Eyal Alaluf.

Someone is gonna lose their job!

 

[Staples]

Will they find Linux code again?

That sounds something like it was from a Linux fanboy. If I knew you were one and not just mistaken (like you probably are), I have to say

"don't flatter yourself, MS isn't going to copy Linux code this time just like they didn't last time because BSD is far supperior than Linux will ever be. People want to copy things that work better then their own, not the other way around."

Anyway, I am sure you are just mistaken, they had BSD code in the TCP/IP stack in 2000 and probably still in XP but that is what you get by releasing open source, I mean isn't that what the open source community says, to help other developers develop great software?? I see nothing wrong with it and it is partially because I hate all those open source hipocrites (sp).

 

[CPA]

Why when I see you BSD I keep thinking Blue Screen of Death?

Can someone care to explain what BSD is?

 

[Staples]

BSD - Berkley Software Distribution is another form of Unix.

ATT invented the first one called System 5 and then some nerds at Berkley wanted to invent an OS that acted and felt like Unix so they developed BSD. Linux is exactly another one of these varients but it is free and open source and has the biggest annoying fanbase behind it too.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: bleeb
NO. Linux is stable. Windows is NOT.

Funny, Windows (even 98) has been perfectly stable on installs that I've had control over. It's all a matter or driver updates and keeping crappy programs off the computer. I can almost guarantee that if Linux were used as widely in the desktop market it would also be considered unstable. Right now the only people installing Linux are people who know how to keep a machine in good health anyway.

My current Win XP install on my laptop (running as a desktop replacement) is two years old and shows no problems. My sister's XP install on her laptop is less than 6 months old and has so many problems it's not even funny because she's clueless and downloads spyware and viruses. I cleaner her computer over Christmas break and NAV found 26 viruses and AdAware found over 150 instances of spyware.

The relative instability of Windows is almost certainly caused to a large degree by the fact that the user base for Windows includes people like the guy here in the labs who tried to put a floppy disk in the CD-ROM drive, while Linux's user base does not include those people.

ZV

 

[Nitemare]

Bout time for SCO to file another lawsuit isn't it.

 

[Willoughbyva]

.

 

[DOSfan]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: bleeb
NO. Linux is stable. Windows is NOT.

Funny, Windows (even 98) has been perfectly stable on installs that I've had control over. It's all a matter or driver updates and keeping crappy programs off the computer. I can almost guarantee that if Linux were used as widely in the desktop market it would also be considered unstable. Right now the only people installing Linux are people who know how to keep a machine in good health anyway.

My current Win XP install on my laptop (running as a desktop replacement) is two years old and shows no problems. My sister's XP install on her laptop is less than 6 months old and has so many problems it's not even funny because she's clueless and downloads spyware and viruses. I cleaner her computer over Christmas break and NAV found 26 viruses and AdAware found over 150 instances of spyware.

The relative instability of Windows is almost certainly caused to a large degree by the fact that the user base for Windows includes people like the guy here in the labs who tried to put a floppy disk in the CD-ROM drive, while Linux's user base does not include those people.

ZV

There is an adendum here.

Most viruses (and maybe spyware) are designed with Windows in mind.

This might change if Linux ever became mainstream.

But as it stands now, if one of these "typical end users" could get a Linux box they would have a more stable system.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
.

 

[Ynog]

I wouldn't be surprised to see a sample code snippet from a BSD/Linux/unix varient in Windows.
Though am guessing you wouldn't see a large block of code.