[ale] Vista vs Linux
Christopher Fowler
cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Mar 27 16:16:20 EDT 2007
Yep. Sounds like a fake story. Comments are not part of compiled code.
I guess it would be possible to place comments in the code via variables
but that would waste memory.
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 16:07 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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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