It's not the hostile code that will get them. It's the fact that the
code is
written around drop in code. In other words, the fact that one could
take API
A and "drop in" API B as long as the calling convention is obeyed will
be the 
undoing. M$ is saying that that can't be done. I know better, I've seen
the 
disassembled code for 95. In fact I once saw a "drop in" hook to grab
the Windoze
95 system queue, before Windoze. Think about that one for a minute, to
be able to 
see every Windoze message from mouseclick to file erase, before the OS
itself
does. Here's a tidbit of funny irony; one of the 47 published
commentaries is
from the US Senate. They say the settlement is a bad thing, obscure,
ambiguous 
and unenforceable.

I read a few of the pro and con views. The pro views are all talking
around the issue
and the cons all zero in on the same points about how the settlement is
bad and where
it is bad and (for the most part) how to fix it.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marvin Bellamy [mailto:Marvin.Bellamy@innovision.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:14 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Take me - No Take Microsoft instead!
> 
> 
> It's a lock that this sort of code is in the product, but I hope that 
> the sheer size of their code base will prevent them from removing 
> everything.  Enron couldn't shred everything with months of 
> time to do 
> so.  Think of all the bonehead  E-mails and memos made public in the 
> trial...
> 
> 
> zscoundrel wrote:
> 
> > The question is, will Microsoft have time to pull out all 
> the hostile 
> > code before they turn over the source to someone they don't 
> have under 
> > a gag order contract???
> >
> > Marvin Bellamy wrote:
> >
> >> if (3rdPartyApp == unwillingPartnership)
> >>    crashApp(3rdPartyApp,"This program has performed an illegal 
> >> operation");
> >>
> >> Brian Densmore wrote:
> >>
> >>> Anyone see Saturday's story.
> >>>
> >>> Micro$oft ordered to turn over the Windoze Source code to 
> the 9 states!
> >>> 
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/02/16/microsoft.code.reut/index.ht

>>>
>>> ml
>>>
>>> Think they have time to find anything useful?
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>>
majordomo@kclug.org
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
majordomo@kclug.org
>>
>
>