Microsoft acquired SysInternals?
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Wed Nov 8 20:35:00 GMT 2006
Dave Korn wrote:
> 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 The scumbags have withdrawn all of sysinternals' source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>
>
> Never forget, however, that your use of the tools remains governed by the
> original sysinternals license, which contained no provisions for transfer or
> assignment[*], and not any new "improved" MS licensing terms...
Yes, this was foreseen to happen when the announcement was made, and
fortunately somebody made a copy of every utility and source code
package on the site on that date:
http://dessent.net/tmp/Sysinternals-all-2006-07-18.rar [13.1 MB]
Brian
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