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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by ColanR on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:19PM (#24645254)
Source?
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by russh on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:23PM (#24645820)
Yes, I believe it was the source.
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by vmception on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:49PM (#24645990)
so so much doesnt have articles written about it and evidence only exists for a limited time

I’ve seen a ton of stuff on Empire that wouldn’t have a direct link and Empire is gone now

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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by INTPenis on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:09AM (#24648191)
I also remember Windows source code leaking in the early 2000s. I even downloaded it myself back then but that was many computers ago.

And afaik it was not buildable. It was a large chunk of the source code that iirc had leaked from a 3rd party who was tasked with making some component, perhaps related to the image library.

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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by heavyset_go on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:49PM (#24646779)
I've heard for years that it was floating around, and saw some torrents that claimed to be the XP source, but I've never downloaded it myself to find out.
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