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Unusual Bloat: The news articles said that the leaked code was approx.
25% of the total SOURCE code of the w2k kernel. If 40GB is
1/4, then the whole thing is 160GBs of SOURCE code.

To make a comparison the latest Linux 2.6 kernel ( see
www.kernel.org ) is approx 35MEGABytes compresses
source, which even with 10 fold compression (unlikely) it
would expand to 350 megabytes (1GB = 1024 MB). So the
source of the nt kernel is 468 times larger than the Linux
kernel.

The funny thing is that the 2.6 Linux kernel is far more
robust, efficient and secure than the w2k kernel.

So we have agree that a source that is 468 times larger
than another one which is crappy, is not bloated.

The ms kernel developers are really so wasteful of
everything and i am sure that the w2k kernel includes all
the load of junk since the msdos 2.1 era.

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The source code of a monsterpiece. michael-t | 02/12/04

And they claim we are safer because the hackers don't have the code. DonnieBoy | 02/13/04

Now I wonder who did this?? Arthas | 02/12/04

Why would anyone do that?!? guido_z | 02/12/04

Advice for arthas nite_w0lf | 02/12/04

Advice for nite_wolf Arthas | 02/12/04

advise for Barfas stephen732@... | 02/12/04

it very well could be Arthas | 02/12/04

Evidence Martin Marvinski | 02/12/04

you are clearly showing your age matted@... | 02/13/04

Evidence Arthas | 02/13/04

it very well could be... Microsoft ejhonda | 02/13/04

very intrincted logic, pal fgh1234 | 02/13/04

Arthas, why Open source is good for students voska | 02/13/04

I never said it wasn't good Arthas | 02/13/04

Cable?! Frank.. | 02/13/04

Its Microsoft's doing OhMyGosh | 02/12/04

Fingerprint each copy? IT_User | 02/12/04

Exactly linux_skynyrd | 02/12/04

Controversy? sman_z | 02/12/04

On the Contrary linux_skynyrd | 02/12/04

unlikely guido_z | 02/13/04

interesting.... jediab | 02/13/04

Good question OhMyGosh | 02/13/04

guess ms shared source is not real JWatson77 | 02/12/04

Before you get your knickers in a knot Cardinal_Bill | 02/12/04

enough... fenderman | 02/12/04

You assume too much about Redmond. DanIelWalker_z | 02/13/04

HP Made $2,500,000,000 last year from open source jaydee_z | 02/13/04

Maybe it was the Smithsonian IT_User | 02/13/04

National Security issthatso | 02/13/04

Hackers have had the code for a long time. We just did not know. DonnieBoy | 02/13/04

Are you ready to retract this statement? rinaldo | 02/13/04

Care to post a link? BruceWheelock@... | 02/13/04

Here's where I read it rinaldo | 02/13/04

not a link, but a quote from full-disclosure SpikeyMike_z | 02/14/04

not happend guido_z | 02/12/04

40 GB????!!!! OhMyGosh | 02/12/04

Well... Martin Marvinski | 02/12/04

Agreed. doe_z | 02/12/04

Unusual Bloat michael-t | 02/16/04

Worse than that Robert Crocker | 02/12/04

40GB of source, not binaries Oggie_z | 02/12/04

That's still huge CobraA1 | 02/12/04

Hmmm michael-t | 02/16/04

no assembly required setsdfgsdf | 02/17/04

One floppy? sman_z | 02/12/04

W2K for all platforms, i386, alpha, ppc hal9000mx | 02/14/04

Windows has AV mechanisms??? Who knew? ejhonda | 02/12/04

I wonder who did that.... Typical.... guido_z | 02/12/04

They are more worried about their property than our SAFETY??? MrNasty000 | 02/12/04

not difficult guido_z | 02/12/04

Merits of the source.. sman_z | 02/12/04

and they are right.... ryusen | 02/13/04

It is complete, well... Richard Flude | 02/12/04

"damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort." David Mohring | 02/12/04

Good article CobraA1 | 02/12/04

Third option Nigel Johnstone | 02/13/04

Fourth option IT_User | 02/13/04

ha ha ha.. looking for to see this buggy source code M_c | 02/12/04

Expect them to "do a SCO" soon chris q | 02/12/04

Gee, but wouldn't that be redundant? wink

dicktaurus@... | 02/13/04

At last, the truth... p.severin@... | 02/13/04

MS Has Right To Protect Source, However . . . markdoiron | 02/13/04

security misused guido_z | 02/13/04

Windows is safer because the hackers don't have the code!!!! DonnieBoy | 02/13/04

Then perhaps... mikeybrass | 02/13/04

alcatel.... guido_z | 02/13/04

Re: Alcatel mikeybrass | 02/13/04

What's wrong with the command line? voska | 02/13/04

Installing mikeybrass | 02/13/04

network basics guido_z | 02/13/04

Re: Alcatel mikeybrass | 02/13/04

alcatel / security / user friendly guido_z | 02/13/04

another reply guido_z | 02/13/04

PS mikeybrass | 02/13/04

That has nothing to do with the current discussion DonnieBoy | 02/13/04

Contra mikeybrass | 02/13/04

The migration will start in the enterprise. For the home: Lindows. DonnieBoy | 02/13/04

Talk about Bloatware Rick_K | 02/13/04

Avoid, avoid, avoid... Zogg | 02/13/04

Best advice on this board IT_User | 02/13/04

MS might as well go OpenSource now interlocutor | 02/13/04

scrutiny guido_z | 02/13/04

MS real fear... security or stolen IP revealed? MacCanuck | 02/13/04

how your subconscious reads this news aknxy | 02/13/04

Good for the goose... Rangerbob@... | 02/13/04

Its only pety larceny anyway! (nt) nite_w0lf | 02/13/04

Happens all the time voska | 02/13/04

What a coincidence Chad_z | 02/13/04

Allchin said devastating to national security... rinaldo | 02/13/04

Who On Earth Would Want To Look At That Sloppy Code? brenthawkinsmd | 02/13/04

Just Another Microsoft Ploy Against OpenSource claytonmuhler | 02/13/04

Code was leaked from Linux computer George Mitchell | 02/13/04

Then why was the code in a "zip" archive? David Mohring | 02/13/04

Not that I disagree, but... John L. Ries | 02/13/04

tar Teknophobic | 02/13/04

alcatel / security / user friendly guido_z | 02/13/04

Sorry, skip this one wrong post. guido_z | 02/13/04

Okay, which one of you leaked it and took FilledOut | 02/13/04

new security initiative wink

rgriffith64@... | 02/13/04

What goes around comes around Karma_1 | 02/13/04

Re: Arthas - Wonder Who etc. etc. Nicholas Donovan | 02/13/04

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