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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. February 14, 2004 11:07 PM
    Federelli said:
    Whoa you guys removed that insulting part of code comment, what happened?
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  2. February 15, 2004 1:31 PM
    Julio said:
    I found it of somewhat bad taste and not too informative so I decided to take that down.
    Reply
  3. February 15, 2004 11:53 PM
    Federelli said:
    Well done :)
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