[ale] Vista vs Linux

[Scott Castaline]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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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I kind of thought so, but I wasn't sure I thought I remembered something 
about compilers stripping out comments along with white space. Plus I 
haven't seen anything else on it, although it wouldn't surprise me a bit 
if M$ did actually rip off code. I trust them as far as I trust the 
current White House Administration.