[FYI] MS partner fingered in Windows code leak, Linux box implicated
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MS partner fingered in Windows code leak, Linux box implicated
By John Lettice
Posted: 13/02/2004 at 16:29 GMT
Yesterday's Windows source code leak tracks back to long-term
Microsoft partner Mainsoft, according to Betanews. An analysis of the
code finds numerous references to Mainsoft's MainWin product, while a
post-crash core dump file provides a possible smoking pistol pointing
to a Linux machine likely to have been used by Mainsoft technology
director Eyal Alaluf.
Mainsoft tells the world that "Mainsoft has unprecedented access to
Microsoft Windows source code enabling the industry's highest level
of Windows compliancy on Unix" - quite.
[...]
Finally, this is very important: if you propose to continue working
in the IT industry, and somebody offers you a look at the source,
just say no. Remember - if you learn too much about the internals of
Microsoft products, you may find yourself unable to work for anybody
except Microsoft. Yikes. ®
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