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  The scumbags have withdrawn all of sysinternals' source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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