Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code

mario_grgic writes "Apparently inappropriate code comments is one of the reasons according to this story. I wonder what kind of things developers put in comments that would be so bad for the rest of us to see?"

Comments

comments?

[Anonymous Coward]

/* Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. */

Best of the 'inappropiate comments'

[rednip]

• for a good time call June x12345
• Linux rules!
• It's like patching a Damn made of sawdust!
• Man, this code sucks!
• ToDo: this looks like a security hole (repeated 4689 times)
• (got any more!)...

Re:Best of the 'inappropiate comments'

[Anonymous Coward]

I prefer to think the most inappropriate comment possible would be:

GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Re:Best of the 'inappropiate comments'

[Anonymous Coward]

Cmon. UNIX comments are way funnier.

My personal favorite:

/* You are not expected to understand this. */

Re:Best of the 'inappropiate comments'

[mungtor]

Probably much more like: /* well, Bill is still a douchebag, so here goes the "extended" standard crap */

or /* Instead of doing this right, we'll just keep doing it our way */

and don't forget /* let's see those Open Source assholes figure this one out */

Re:Best of the 'inappropiate comments'

[Brandybuck]

I see that one all the time in the proprietary code base at work.

grep

[mmkkbb]

/* The word 'fuck' is here so you can grep for it */

Programmers do to comment.

[kngthdn]

...

/* Man I hate this fricking company */
LineTo(hdc, LOWORD(lParam), HIWORD(lParam));
ReleaseDC(hwnd, hdc);
}

fDraw = NULL;
return 0L;

/* Nobody reads this crappy code anyway */
case WM_MOUSEMOVE:
if (fDraw)
{
hdc = GetDC(hwnd_global);
MoveToEx(hdc, ptPrevious.x, ptPrevious.y, NULL);
LineTo(hdc, ptPrevious.x = LOWORD(lParam),

/* I wish I could stick this at the top of the WndProc... */
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_DESTROY, 0, 0);

...

Well... for starters...

[Duncan3]

/* Copyright © 2000 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. */

graph of fucks per line in the kernel

[tepples]

Better yet: The word 'fuck' is here so you can graph for it.

Easy...

[Epsillon]

/* Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. */

And a little further down...

/* It's our TCP/IP thingy. We're gonna patent it. We own the Internet and all it's (sic) protocols. Resistance is fu... is fut... is useless */

;-)

Examples of Comments MS Don't Want You to See

[Nova Express]

///**This is Security Hole which will force them to upgrade to XP Pro**///

///**This is the best I could do ripping off the feature from OS X; it will have to do until the next rev. Damn tricky Apple bastards...**///

///**These are not the comments you are looking for.**///

///**I pulled this right out of the Linux 2.4 source code! They'll never know!**///

///**Adobe incompatability code enabler; see Screwing the Competition, Volume 23 for Documentation**///

///**Man, I'd never get away with this shoddy hack if it weren't for our illegal OS Monopoly! Being evil rules!**///

///**Hey, wait a minute! THERE'S where that SCO Source Code went to!**///

Re:Inappropriate comments....

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, if ya look at the performance, it's pretty obviously not C.

Quake III

[Neo_Ludite]

My favorite from the Quake III source
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?

Best comment I ever saw

[Gildenstern]

The best comment I ever saw in a piece of code was from a friend that I was working on a group project with back in college. He sent me some of his work for the project and I was having problems getting it to work like he said it did so I was looking in the code and found

/*Drunk, Fix this Shit Later*/