Sandboxie Acquired by Invincea

You are welcome, plat.

Bo

 

FWIW, today I heard some news about Sandboxie that got me all excited and happy. I couldn't believe what I was reading because in my opinion, what I was told is about as good as we can expect for the future of Sandboxie when it becomes open source. I don't believe I should go into details but if this comes thru, Sandboxie is gonna have a bright future.

Bo

 

I second that!

C'mon, Bo. Don't leave us hanging, man. Share.

 

sounds good Bo.

 

We got a gift from Curt, the old Sandboxie forum Read only. Here is the link.

Sandboxie Support - Index page

Bo

 

Yes, please spill the beans! Let me guess, a couple of Invincea guys are planning to start their own Sandboxie company.

I don't see this happening since they have already developed a product. They would have to dump it completely. Would be interesting to see if multiple Sandboxie versions will be developed, so called forks.

 

hell, close to 2 years offline, seems decades for me.

 

Well, this gift is great, I can definitely make use of this!

I feel like a dog who's like nosing around the food dish for extra crumbs. Is this the big happy surprise or was it something else? lol?

 

No, is something else, better and more important.

Not close but not too far either, ....warm.

Bo

 

I was thinking that perhaps the original developer of sandboxie was thinking of returning to help develop a fork of the open sourced sandboxie.

 

Hey, everyone, Bo may have made a promise to someone to keep quiet. Patience is the most divine of all virtues.
Acadia

 

Hi Acadia, I wasn't asked not to say anything. I just have the feeling that the chances are greater for what I was told to happen, if for now, not much is said about it.

I just wanted give you guys some hope. What I was told, excites me. It gives, in my personal view, a clear and solid future, the horizon for Sandboxie looks coherent and bright. Lets hope it happens, my friend.

Bo

 

The source code was released earlier today.

https://community.sophos.com/produc...ie-open-source-code-is-available-for-download



Bo

 

Hi stapp, you can get it from this link, click Here and follow through.

https://www.sandboxie.com/

Bo

 

I dont think the link in the forum has worked at any time during the day.

Bo

 

I have uploaded the sources to GitHub: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/Sandboxie
and fixed an issue that prevented the sources from correctly building (encoding on SbieControl.rc was messed up).

Cheers
David X.

 

bo,
Maybe you should inaugurate a new thread on "Open Source Sandboxie"
You certainly deserve the honour!

 

here is one: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/open-source-sandboxie.427755/

 

Good deal. I am no developer but I know you have been after Sophos
to push for the release of the open source code.
Now, I can at least dream of a sandboxie version that works on Windows XP!!

 

Definitely doable, reviewing change-log from 5.22 (last XP version) and 5.24 at https://www.sandboxie.com/VersionChanges.php it does not seam much has changed except the move to VS2015, so possibly it wont be to much work.

 

Just the thought that it may be do-able is great news.
So, there is hope. You made my day! Thank you @DavidXanatos