[ale] Vista vs Linux

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 15:16 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:

> I thought I had seen somewhere that Vista was being pulled in Europe, 
> something about someone had reversed engineered it and found about 30% 
> of the source to have been pirated. The original comments were still in 
> the source. If true I find it befitting a software company getting 
> caught at exactly what it claims to be trying to prevent,,,,,,,,,,,,

It would not surprise me, but...

It has to be urban legend. Once compiled, the comments in the source are
gone. There is no way possible to recreate them with a decompiler.
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James P. Kinney III          
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