• Microsoft says open source Windows is "definitely possible"
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[QUOTE=Fetret;47453095]How will those patches be brought together or where will they be hosted together? How will individuals or teams working on patching different exploits make sure what they fix is not breaking someone else's patch? If multiple groups work on the same exploit, whose patch are you going to trust? How will the relatively slow pace of voluntary patching keep up with the immensely financially viable malware production?[/QUOTE] Yes, it's almost as if these issues were prevalent in the very first days of Open Source, and were already resolved decades ago
[QUOTE=fragger0;47465729]Windows will not go open source. If you think it's a good business move from microsoft you have no idea... pretty much every decision microsoft (or in fact any other tech company, google etc) make is aimed towards businesses, not general consumers. Can't even express how much money they'd lose if they did this. Would basically be the killer blow to the office365 platform. I see most people in this thread wanting open source are people who are obviously interested in computing and coding but have no idea how the business world works. I'm 100% in agreement that making it open source would benefit the operating system [B]but no business is going to use an operating system where anyone can view the source code[/B], it's crazy to even suggest that it couldnt be used to find exploits and target businesses. There is a reason most companies pay thousands of pounds a year just for systems that stop phising emails and such - even medium sized companies are under constant threat from hackers etc. If you genuinely think that it wouldn't lose microsoft a shit tonne of money you have clearly no experience working in a B2B office or a tech based company. Most IT people are skeptical of the cloud let alone this. Stupid for the CEO to even suggest it publicly, could lose them a lot of money. To be honest if you disagree with this you've obviously never worked in the IT sales industry. It's hard enough to get people off Exchange 2003 let alone getting them to agree to a dramatic change like that.[/QUOTE] Have you ever heard of Linux, the most popular operating system in the world? That drive almost all routers and external servers, and a big chunk of internal servers half the mobile phone market share, your TV, your car, your companies database server, the offshore server you backup all your files too. your companies website, your companies payroll system, your scanners and your printers and your security cameras. And pretending that a vulnerability in a system would be so much more scary then any other application you use on a regular basis just shows how little you know what you're talking about. Finding a RCE exploit in a browser(and Firefox, Chrome and Opera are opensource btw) is much more interesting then finding that dos or privilege escalation in the kernel.
Remember this: Linux is everywhere [I]except[/I] in desktops
[QUOTE=Trumple;47452026]Exactly, like that time they said they'd open-source C#! Oh wait... [url]https://github.com/dotnet/corefx[/url] [/QUOTE] It's not fully open source yet. It's at ~30% right now. I spoke with some of the maintainers on their chat and they told me that it'll take a while. If Windows ever gets open sourced then it'll take 2+ years before it'd be entirely open sourced. I'd guess that only NT would be open sourced together with the windows core and the home basic branch. [editline]8th April 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Abaddon-ext4;47479197]Remember this: Linux is everywhere [I]except[/I] in desktops[/QUOTE] Depends on what definition of desktop you uphold. It's slowly becoming popular as a laptop/netbook OS (ChromeOS) and a lot of companies use thin clients that run Linux.
[QUOTE=Abaddon-ext4;47479197]Remember this: Linux is everywhere [I]except[/I] in desktops[/QUOTE] It's growing though
I thought windows had like a 70% of the market share or something, and now linux is the most popular operating system? How does that work? Does the "70%" statistic only apply to consumer desktops or something?
[QUOTE=Ardosos;47491676]I thought windows had like a 70% of the market share or something, and now linux is the most popular operating system? How does that work? Does the "70%" statistic only apply to consumer desktops or something?[/QUOTE] Pretty much. At enterprise level Windows has very little market share. And enterprise makes up a huge portion of the computers we have globally due to it running everything. Servers, embedded devices, portable devices, thin clients, and many more.
Wooo we now we get Bill Gates to compete with Linux
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