From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:18:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:18:35 -0500 Received: from inet.connecttech.com ([206.130.75.2]:39364 "EHLO inet.connecttech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:18:27 -0500 Message-ID: <08f901c0a7f4$2cb9b240$294b82ce@connecttech.com> From: "Stuart MacDonald" To: In-Reply-To: <1355693A51C0D211B55A00105ACCFE64E952C3@ATL_MS1> Subject: [OT] Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000? Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:21:12 -0500 Organization: Connect Tech Inc. X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Venkatesh Ramamurthy" > http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2692987,00.html "As such, clients will not be allowed to alter the code in any form and may not give any other party access to any aspect of that code." Does this preclude one reading the source and then using the knowledge gained to write, independently, working modules for Linux; fixing the fs problems for instance? Does anyone on the list have access to the code? It seems to me this might be an opportunity... ..Stu