Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:37:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:37:37 -0500 Received: from mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.38]:3748 "EHLO mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:37:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:40:19 +0000 (GMT) From: "James A. Sutherland" To: Stuart MacDonald cc: Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000? In-Reply-To: <08f901c0a7f4$2cb9b240$294b82ce@connecttech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Stuart MacDonald wrote: > 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... They already license the Win2k bug's source to academic people without a huge NDA attached (and without the non-compete clause prohibiting work on other OSs!). There's a copy around here somewhere - I don't have access, but know who does, and might be able to get a copy at some point... James. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/