So what's the legal angle on any of the thousands of people who
mirrored the entire Sysinternals site when the MS acquisition was
announced putting up the sources somewhere ?
This reminds me of when Securityfocus took down all their exploits and
everyone had a giant .tar.gz on their machine.
Ian
On 11/8/06, Dave Korn <dave.korn_at_artimi.com> wrote:
>
>
> Guess what.
>
>
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
> dk@rainbow /tmp> wget -S http://www.sysinternals.com/
> --13:42:46-- http://www.sysinternals.com/
> => `index.html'
> Resolving www.sysinternals.com... 66.193.254.46
> Connecting to www.sysinternals.com[66.193.254.46]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
> 1 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
> 2 Content-Length: 181
> 3 Content-Type: text/html
> 4 Location: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
>
>
> Oh look, they've moved it over to microsoft. Let's take a look
>
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
> Featured Resources
> File and Disk Utilities Networking Processes & Threads
> Security Utilities System Information Miscellaneous
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
>
>
> Hmmm, looks like pretty much the same old stuff... <browse><browse>... hang
> on a minute! Where's the sources?
>
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/sysinternals/
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
> Hi, my name is Otto Helweg and I'm very excited to help lead the Sysinternals
> community migration as well as help define a plan for Sysinternals growth
> going forward. I'm a Program Manager in the Windows Server and Tools division
> but my background is heavy IT-Pro (not too much dev) and I look forward to
> interfacing[*] with the Sysinternals users.
> [ . . . ]
> Our goal is to smoothly migrate the major Sysinternals site components to
> Microsoft services and keep the same level of service the community received
> pre-acquisition. Here's how the components are going to match up:
>
>
> Original Sysinternals Site Microsoft Service
>
> Mark's Blog TechNet Blog - Mark
> Yahoo Groups Newsletter TechNet Blog - Sysinternals
> Web Site TechNet TechCenter
> Downloads Microsoft.Com Downloads
> Forum TechNet Forum
> Source Code Not being migrated.
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
>
>
> Woah! "Not being migrated"?! Thanks a BUNCH, "Otto". WTF not?
>
>
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
> Source Code: The number of source code downloads didn't justify the migration,
> support, and possible integration problems it might cause with other Windows
> components down the road.
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
>
>
> Now, how is that for a completely bogus weasel bunch of crap. Source code
> might cause "integration problems [...] with other Windows components"? Total
> bullshit. Microsoft is simply irrationally allergic to ever letting anyone
> see sources for anything and this is like the kind of pathetic blatantly false
> rationalisations that neurotics come up with to justify their irrational and
> compulsive behaviours.
>
> Microsoft needs to get into therapy[**].
>
>
> In other news:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/licensing.mspx
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
> Installation and User Rights
>
> You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices.
> [ . . . ]
> Scope of License
>
> You may not
> [ . . . ]
> make more copies of the software than specified in this agreement
> ---------------------------------<snip!>---------------------------------
>
>
> I must not make more than "any number" of copies of the software? I'm not
> sure if this means I can only make zero copies or if I can make infinite
> copies...
>
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
>
> [*] - sic. I /think/ it's a typo for 'interfering'. ;-)
> [**] - I know, I know... this is hardly news to anyone!
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