I hate to pull an "Ackthucally" here, but, a couple of items...
Thanks to the GNU GPL (and similar open-source licenses which the Linux kernel and all of the goodies in a typical distro rely on), the political orientations of the developers don't mean shit. I've run Linux almost continuously since 1996, and nobody cared what my politics are. Fun trivia fact: Eric Raymond, a huge early contributor to the Linux Kernel, was based as fuck, and probably still is. When you have a software license and philosophy geared towards maximizing freedom, you can bet your ass that the Conservative crowd is all up in that shit.
OP (on Twatter) doesn't say which source codes: Office, Windows 10 (or 2019 Server?), Sharepoint, SQL Server, Microsoft Bob... what? Microsoft has literally hundreds, if not thousands of products... which products?
This ain't the first time Microsoft got its family jewels kicked and snatched: Windows 2000 and Windows NT4's source code repos were snatched (and published!) back in 2004... and a shitload of people were still using Win2k at the time because XP was buggy as fuck until SP 2 came out later in 2004 (and shitloads of companies were still using NT4 Server professionally since they were mostly still migrating to Win2k3 Server).
I think you and I have a language barrier getting in the way, because you're responding adversarially to a bunch of stuff we agree on.
For starters with 2, you misread. We're saying the same thing. Nobody is telling us what got leaked. There's a big difference between "all of o365" vs some meaningless internal service, and I want that information. Right now it just looks like somebody popped "something" at Microsoft, which happens a lot and isn't newsworthy. When I see this kind of vaguery, I'm suspicious of both the big company possibly hiding a big problem and that the journo may just be using vague descriptions of a trivial incident to get famous.
Go look up the "code of conduct" they're slipping in to the open source world now. There's already been several prominent people driven out of open source projects for being "not accepting enough" or whatever.
There are a couple groups of social justice grifters that keep gaining control over projects, running off the original maintainers, siphoning away donated money into their political nonprofits, and then starting to do "we tell you what to think" BS.
All of this is also happening within BOTH Microsoft (and several similar companies) AND the Linux/OSS community. This is a war on our vital infrastructure that won't be simply cured by more failed attempts to get non-technical people to use Linux.
I get that some projects do stupid things (especially with the code of conduct stuff), but anyone can fork any project at any time.
All of this is also happening within BOTH Microsoft (and several similar companies) AND the Linux/OSS community. This is a war on our vital infrastructure that won't be simply cured by more failed attempts to get non-technical people to use Linux.
Agreed perfectly, and copied verbatim for emphasis.
While the hackers, suspected to be working for Russia’s S.V.R. intelligence agency, did not appear to use Microsoft’s systems to attack other victims, they were able to view some Microsoft source code by hacking into an employee account, the company said.
Microsoft has a leftist problem, so the higher-ups released vague statements about "a nation-state actor" and the retarded leftist Karens running all the public relations channels just assumed it implied Russia and the world just accepted that as fact. It's more likely Iran or China.
I have exactly one critical application (which is a royal bitch to get going under WINE, and also demands full use of CUDA-compliant NVIDIA drivers) which keeps me on the 'doze plantation. The moment that gets Linux-native compatibility, I'm outies from Microsoft
(I would've just kept using MacOS, but those dipshits won't sell a laptop with a decent Geforce GPU these days.)
If they grabbed source code for an automated build service somewhere, they could still write this headline and it would mean nothing. We need better information here.
It is doable, but you have really rig some stuff up for emulation, so you need a beefy system. The Linux community is great at supporting / documenting things so search around for your fave game + Linux. Steam has a few decent titles available that run under Linux.
Oh praise God..
Finally we're going to switch to open source linux.
Linux is ran by unicorns and SJWs, and is in no way going to treat us any differently than Microsoft
I hate to pull an "Ackthucally" here, but, a couple of items...
Thanks to the GNU GPL (and similar open-source licenses which the Linux kernel and all of the goodies in a typical distro rely on), the political orientations of the developers don't mean shit. I've run Linux almost continuously since 1996, and nobody cared what my politics are. Fun trivia fact: Eric Raymond, a huge early contributor to the Linux Kernel, was based as fuck, and probably still is. When you have a software license and philosophy geared towards maximizing freedom, you can bet your ass that the Conservative crowd is all up in that shit.
OP (on Twatter) doesn't say which source codes: Office, Windows 10 (or 2019 Server?), Sharepoint, SQL Server, Microsoft Bob... what? Microsoft has literally hundreds, if not thousands of products... which products?
This ain't the first time Microsoft got its family jewels kicked and snatched: Windows 2000 and Windows NT4's source code repos were snatched (and published!) back in 2004... and a shitload of people were still using Win2k at the time because XP was buggy as fuck until SP 2 came out later in 2004 (and shitloads of companies were still using NT4 Server professionally since they were mostly still migrating to Win2k3 Server).
I think you and I have a language barrier getting in the way, because you're responding adversarially to a bunch of stuff we agree on.
For starters with 2, you misread. We're saying the same thing. Nobody is telling us what got leaked. There's a big difference between "all of o365" vs some meaningless internal service, and I want that information. Right now it just looks like somebody popped "something" at Microsoft, which happens a lot and isn't newsworthy. When I see this kind of vaguery, I'm suspicious of both the big company possibly hiding a big problem and that the journo may just be using vague descriptions of a trivial incident to get famous.
Go look up the "code of conduct" they're slipping in to the open source world now. There's already been several prominent people driven out of open source projects for being "not accepting enough" or whatever.
There are a couple groups of social justice grifters that keep gaining control over projects, running off the original maintainers, siphoning away donated money into their political nonprofits, and then starting to do "we tell you what to think" BS.
All of this is also happening within BOTH Microsoft (and several similar companies) AND the Linux/OSS community. This is a war on our vital infrastructure that won't be simply cured by more failed attempts to get non-technical people to use Linux.
I get that some projects do stupid things (especially with the code of conduct stuff), but anyone can fork any project at any time.
Agreed perfectly, and copied verbatim for emphasis.
...and, we get this:
(emphasis mine)
Sweet Jesus.... Okay it's time to switch for real. No more having just a hobby Linux box.
I don't need normies ruining Linux. They can switch to mac.
https://archive.vn/OQcLm
Microsoft has a leftist problem, so the higher-ups released vague statements about "a nation-state actor" and the retarded leftist Karens running all the public relations channels just assumed it implied Russia and the world just accepted that as fact. It's more likely Iran or China.
Oh snap. Thats means all source code tepos were grabbed. Thats HUGE
I was thinking about switching to Linux for home use anyway. Guess this just gives me more of a reason.
I have exactly one critical application (which is a royal bitch to get going under WINE, and also demands full use of CUDA-compliant NVIDIA drivers) which keeps me on the 'doze plantation. The moment that gets Linux-native compatibility, I'm outies from Microsoft
(I would've just kept using MacOS, but those dipshits won't sell a laptop with a decent Geforce GPU these days.)
Of what? Windows? I’d love the source code for Windows.
Like... The nuclear ones?!
If they grabbed source code for an automated build service somewhere, they could still write this headline and it would mean nothing. We need better information here.
gamer pede here. How does one use linix for say..... forza or non linux games?
It's a pain in the ass, but doable, using a set of libraries called WINE. It can do a ton of games, but not sure if yours is in there or not.
PS: Steam also have Linux versions for a huge percentage of their gaming inventory.
It is doable, but you have really rig some stuff up for emulation, so you need a beefy system. The Linux community is great at supporting / documenting things so search around for your fave game + Linux. Steam has a few decent titles available that run under Linux.
I think it's China because they could make copies of Microsoft's software and further separate themselves from the US and the rest ot the world.
It was china
the source code of what?
https://thedonald.win/p/11RO7Tydng/news-from-microsoft-the-solarwin/c/