Verily I say unto thee, that John Locke spake thusly:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 06:02:44 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If Vista were on DW, do you reckon it would beat PCLOS in terms of pageviews?
>> One thing I am sure about, based on history. Microsoft employees would game
>> the system.
>
> Now that's a good question...first Balmer would have to OpenSource
> Vista..that would be interesting.
That's one word for it.
If a GPLed copy of Vista landed in the Fedora dev tree, the first thing
that'd happen would be the Bugzilla database would instantly multiply in
size by a factor of several thousand. Then there'd be a global panic to
find testers, QA reviewers and maintainers. Then between them they'd all
decide that 99% of the code was un-salvageable crap anyway, depreciate
the whole lot of it, and go back to working on something more worthy.
They might poke around inside NTFS for a bit, just out of curiosity to
see how good an implementation NTFS-3g is, and then spend a pleasant
afternoon pissing themselves with laughter at Windows Networking, and
the ridiculous packet redundancy in SMB2.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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