• 87Six@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    It would genuinely cause worldwide panic if the Windows source code leaked, and that brings joy to me

    … until I realize I still have Windows because I still haven’t moved to linux

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Some years ago I think windows source was available to be studied in some universities? No sure how true that is and if any recent version is available. Sure would be fun if the slopmachine just ingested all of it…

      • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zip
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        2 months ago

        I think it was that the XP source was leaked. There was a huge deal because those who saw it were highly discouraged from contributing to wine.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          those who saw it were highly discouraged from contributing to wine.

          Can you expand on that a little?

          • 4am@lemmy.zip
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            2 months ago

            WINE is a compatibility layer (famously, WINE Is Not an Emulator) for Windows APIs on posix OSes; most notably this allows you to run Windows applications on Linux.

            Microsoft would truly love to beat WINE to death with a legal sledgehammer but so far they do not have the legal ground, as WINE is developed based on public knowledge and Microsoft famously keeps their source code closed.

            If you saw the Windows source code, and then you contributed to WINE, it is possible Microsoft could make the legal argument that WINE was using stolen trade secrets, even if the verbatim source code was added to the WINE codebase.

            Whether or not that would have worked for Microsoft is up in the air; but the WINE project didn’t want to find out the hard way.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Keep in mind if you transition to Windows you will need to relearn a few things! Lots of your software might have issues and I sure hope you have Nvidia because AMD is straight to broken with all their open source code. Yuck!

    Windows is just better (I use Windows 11 PRO BTW) because you get lots of background processes and there’s even a copilot that’s right about stuff sometimes. Microsoft even keeps a backup of lots of your data up in something called a Cloud, which I assume is good because clouds are up there in the sky like heaven!

    I sure hope 2026 is the year of the Windows PC!

    (/s cause writing this joke hurt my soul)

      • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        There is literally such a lemmy community, but it is not much of an actual community of people over there. From what I’ve read it is more or less one person who bans anyone who challenge their critique.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    Wasn’t there a long time ago a genuine bug report in Mozilla’s bug tracker reporting that the source code was publicly available and this was insecure? I can’t quickly find it because I can’t think of good search terms…

  • xthexder@l.sw0.com
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    2 months ago

    A little off on the lines of code… it’s only around 20 million. I’d be a little worried if there was billions of lines of code, it would be unmaintainable slop.