Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 15:58:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@Freebsd.org> To: chat@Freebsd.org Subject: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <20001105155818.A92095@citusc17.usc.edu>
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--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline ----- Forwarded message from Dan Browning <danb@cyclonecomputers.com> ----- Microsoft Announces Surprise Cooperative Agreement In a surprise press conference made this Friday evening Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft will be releasing the source code for the upcoming Windows operating system dubbed Whistler. "We have already begun work on the project, and have for the past three months collaborated with a small company of enterprising young programmers from Russia," said Ballmer in an impromptu press conference. Ballmer appeared visibly shaken throughout the press conference, and several times made references to how "skillful the Russian programmers were", and how Microsoft "[didn't] want to do anything to threaten [their] relationship with them." "We at Microsoft are confident that by allowing peer review of the already best-selling Windows operating system and Office suite we will be able to offer our customers a more polished product," continued Ballmer. "By allowing the Open Source community [or "hackers"] access to the Windows source code, we will be able to ensure that the operating system ships with even better security than that which you have already come to expect from Microsoft." In what is perhaps a policy-changing move, Microsoft has worked with the Russian programmers to remove bugs and fix security problems before releasing the code for scrutiny to the Open Source community. It is yet unknown whether this change in policy will include release of source code for previous versions of Microsoft products, or whether this will have any bearing on the Justice Department decision to split Microsoft into two separate companies. Posted on Fri 27 Oct 11:50:00 2000 PDT Written by Eugene <eugene_v@yahoo.com> --- Shamelessly plagiarized from Segfault (http://segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=39f9cdfd-08ab7ae0). ----- End forwarded message ----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjoF9BoACgkQWry0BWjoQKXthACgroLpLHWN9Q3AhL3+cRKGUYew MDoAoPz3lDybfz0d5/hoJ/dP/ph8cZxs =frrp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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