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[FYI] MS partner fingered in Windows code leak, Linux box implicated



<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35564.html>

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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