Linus on the Windows source code leak:
"It makes the sources potentially more available to crackers, and that has security issues - but I don't think that is anything really new," Linux founder Linus Torvalds told ChannelWeb. "At most, it just makes it easier for a bored teenager to find the thing. It may make some people realize that the protection of proprietary shrouded source code really isn't a protection at all. It's just a guarantee that the code doesn't get any good outside code review.".
from Netcraft.
"It makes the sources potentially more available to crackers, and that has security issues - but I don't think that is anything really new," Linux founder Linus Torvalds told ChannelWeb. "At most, it just makes it easier for a bored teenager to find the thing. It may make some people realize that the protection of proprietary shrouded source code really isn't a protection at all. It's just a guarantee that the code doesn't get any good outside code review.".
from Netcraft.