Windows XP, Office 2003 Source Codes Reportedly Leaked Online
Sep. 25, 2020The uploader, who used the username ‘billgates3’, claimed to be a proponent of free and open source software (FOSS). In a post justifying their action, they said that“information should be free and available to everyone”. They also insisted, if only tongue-in-cheek, that Microsoft should be happy about the leak since the company is embracing open source software. They also claimed that these files have been passed around among hackers for years.
On the original 4Chan post, they said:“… while I have extracted files that were packed using other compression formats and then compressed them using 7zip, I have made absolutely no changes to the actual source files in this torrent. They’re all untouched by me, so any potential changes from OG Microsoft source code was there all along … I spent about 2 months collecting all these leaks and I’ve gone over all the archives to make sure that they’re genuine”.
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