Almost one year to the date that SCO has gone on the offensive against IP criminals and "free" software leeches, it appears that an as-yet-unknown criminal element has managed to steal the source code to several industry-leading operating system from Microsoft.
Unfortunately, at this time there is only one other source for this story, so it cannot wholly be considered 'legitimate' (even by the loose standards of journalism embaraced by the slashdot commune).
Even with this scant knowlege I -along with every other law abiding citizen- are left to ask ourselves some hard questions.
Which of the so-called "open-source projects" would benefit the most from this brazen theft the most -and who is the most likely culprit?
Is this action related to the IP-leakage from the SCO group, or is it a seperate, unrelated act of intellectual terror?
How far are the GNU/Terrorists willing to take their perverse agenda? Do we need to further beef up the resources to our Department Of Homeland Security?
If there is one silver lining in this debacle, it is this: with the legal tools at Microsoft's disposal, rooting out the patent-infringing technologies in various "open source" splinter projects (samba, wine, etc) should be trivial and inside of five years, this whole "giving away the family secrets" foolishness should be behind us -for once and for all.
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