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Subject: Re: M$ code audit? ;-)
From: poke (pokeoly.silverlink.net)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 00:46:25 CST

> There are those in the Slashdot thread who speculate that this is precisely
> what M$ has set about doing. Justification: M$'s usual response to a
> vulnerability or incident is to stonewall, but in this case they have been
> very forthright. They may well be trying to taint the universe with a
> suspicion of having had access to their code.

Yes, I agree. Microsoft has been unusually candid about this. I suspect
this might end up tying back to their decision to buy into Corel. Here's
the scenario:

They own enough of Corel to pull the strings. Enough of their source code
gets released to taint key portions of newly developed 2.6 kernel. Hence
they can use Corel to sell a distro of Linux that has features that cannot
legally be contained in the mainstream kernel. Now we're officially
fucked^H^H^H^H^H^Hforked. MS distances themselves significantly from Corel
while helping Corel Linux become the dominant desktop OS. Now MS slowly
comes back on the Corel scene and starts folding it back into the
mainstream Windows code base.

-Chuck 

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