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Windows Source Leak Traces Back to Mainsoft

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On February 13, 2004, 3:50 PM

[COLOR=royalblue]BetaNews has learned that Thursday's leak of the Windows 2000 source code originated not from Microsoft, but from long-time Redmond partner Mainsoft.

The leaked code includes 30,915 files and was apparently removed from a Linux computer used by Mainsoft for development purposes. Dated July 25, 2000, the source code represents Windows 2000 Service Pack 1.[/COLOR]

Read more: [URL=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1526829,00.asp]eWeek[/URL]

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  1. Whoa you guys removed that insulting part of code comment, what happened?
  2. I found it of somewhat bad taste and not too informative so I decided to take that down.
  3. Well done :)

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