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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/02/13/microsoft.source/index.html

I thought the comment about owning a Mac was funny.

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Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative was launched last year in part to combat competition from Linux software, which is often less expensive and makes all its code public, allowing companies more customization.

Often???

Quote from: iago on February 14, 2004, 12:14 AM

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Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative was launched last year in part to combat competition from Linux software, which is often less expensive and makes all its code public, allowing companies more customization.

Often???

Well, for example, if you compare: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Premium($2500) to Windows Server 2003 Standard($1000) it wouldn't be less expensive.

Quote from: Hitmen on February 14, 2004, 12:42 AM

Quote from: iago on February 14, 2004, 12:14 AM

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Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative was launched last year in part to combat competition from Linux software, which is often less expensive and makes all its code public, allowing companies more customization.

Often???

Well, for example, if you compare: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Premium($2500) to Windows Server 2003 Standard($1000) it wouldn't be less expensive.

Fedora - $0

"Often" is still a bad word.  "Almost always" or "rarely not" would be better.

I don't understand the surprise. Linux code is full of profanity as well. It's not in the news because everyone who really cares knows about it already. Such extremely large coding projects are probably going to have this anyway.

My first two thoughts when the source was leaked were "Wow, we're going to see a lot of new exploits soon" and "Wonder how long it'll take until someone greps the source for curse words"...

Haha grepping windows source for curse words seems so funny

At work, the previous programmers abbreviated assignment "ass" all the time, including in http query strings.  I didn't think it was appropriate so I went through and systematically changed all of the occurances.