Windows 2000 & NT source code leak

Garth Farley · #1 13-Feb-2004, 04:41

Breaking News!

www.neowin.net has reported that parts (if not the entirety) of the source for Windows 2000 and NT has been illegally released on the internet. Microsoft has www.microsoft.com.

This news is potentially hazardous, let's hope the Windows source doesn't show up any more holes. Strangely enough, many comments on this story on Slashdot are concerned with Linux source, with many fearing that chunk of 2k source will end up in the kernel.

Garth Farley

Note: As in the Neowin forum, do not attempt to post up links/screenshots or exerpts from the source code. I get the feeling Microsoft's legal team will be very busy...

Div · #2 13-Feb-2004, 11:01

What a mess.

dsmith · #3 13-Feb-2004, 11:14

Actually alot of the comments on slashdot have revolved around this funny but erily accurate parody:

Quote:

Gandalf: No! Don't ever use it!

Frodo: How do we know it's source to the One OS of the Dark Lord?

Gandalf tosses a CD-R into the burner, and burns Windows.Source.Code.w2k.nt4.wxp.tar onto it. When the CD is done, there are glowing fiery letters on it.

Frodo : I can't read the fiery letters.

Gandalf : There are few who can. The language is that of Redmond, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue, it says "One OS To Rule Them All, One OS To Find Them, One OS To Bring Them All And With The NDA Bind Them"

Frodo: Take the source code Gandalf!

Gandalf : Noo! Do not tempt me with it! I dare not take it! Not even to keep it safe! You must understand Frodo, that I would be tempted to use this source code, for good. To disclose hidden API's, help the WINE project. But through me, all of open source would be tainted, and the LawyerWraiths of The Dark Lord will sure destroy us.

Frodo : But it cannot stay here!

Gandalf : No, no it can't.

Frodo : What must I do?

Gandalf : It must be sent to the fires of /dev/null, where it will be undone, and we will be kept safe from the Lawyers of Evil.

So remember folks, don't download it, or look at it, or attempt to build it! It is evil, and answers only to the hand of The Dark One.

The point is that open-source developers are holding up a wooden cross to this thing. It is dangerous to even glance at anything to do with this source code. It could literally taint a developer for life...

aaroncohn · #4 26-Feb-2004, 15:23

Man that was pretty funny! I wonder if the Win2k source leak was in any way related to the Half-Life 2 source leak. You know... like, "First half-life, then the world! Muahaha!"

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