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08-03-2006, 19:11

I remember getting hold of the source code to Windows 98 (before it was released of course).

I don't think it's actually a case of having so much security that it can get out, in that for the most part, alot of the code isn't, shall we say, the holy grail of source.

If you think on, to someone sneaking the source code out to another company, then the other company can't use it for fear of the backlash from Microsoft.
The groundbreaking (and innovative) stuff will be, I suppose, down a lesser amount of trusted staff, with the 1000's of coding monkeys just working on bog standard stuff.

Then the further up the heirarchy as stepehno says, the more pieces of the puzzle you get to play with, with the selected few at the top being able to put together the whole jigsaw.

08-03-2006, 19:11	#10 (permalink)
Marcel Posts: n/a	I remember getting hold of the source code to Windows 98 (before it was released of course). I don't think it's actually a case of having so much security that it can get out, in that for the most part, alot of the code isn't, shall we say, the holy grail of source. If you think on, to someone sneaking the source code out to another company, then the other company can't use it for fear of the backlash from Microsoft. The groundbreaking (and innovative) stuff will be, I suppose, down a lesser amount of trusted staff, with the 1000's of coding monkeys just working on bog standard stuff. Then the further up the heirarchy as stepehno says, the more pieces of the puzzle you get to play with, with the selected few at the top being able to put together the whole jigsaw.