Re: Microsoft acquired SysInternals?

[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold at buddydog dot org>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 08 November 2006 14:12, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later...  
>
>   The acquisition was some time ago as it happens; it was fairly widely
> discussed at the time.

Yup, and I was just waiting for the hammer to fall.

> > The surprising thing is
> > that they only started redirecting to the Microsoft site yesterday (the
> > day before I showed one of my colleagues how to download Process Explorer,
> > and it was still the old SysInternals.com site).
>
>   And guess what!  The scumbags have withdrawn all of sysinternals' source
> codes, using the bogus 'explanation' that it might cause "integration problems
> [...] with other Windows components".  MS is acting like the worst cliched
> stereotype of itself.  <spit>

And that was it exactly.  What an incredibly bogus explanation! And to do it so
"breathlessly" to make it sound like it even made sense:

http://blogs.technet.com/sysinternals/archive/2006/10/30/sysinternals-site-migration.aspx

"Source Code: The number of source code downloads didn't justify
the migration, support, and possible integration problems it might
cause with other Windows components down the road."

Ack. Gag me with a spoon already. "Justify" indeed.

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