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Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-me-see-it dept.

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?"

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  1. Inappropriate comments.... by thewldisntenuff · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MS XP Source Code
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    ###Linux is teh suxxor
    ###Linus Torvalds is a dumbass

    etc etc etc

    -thewldisntenuff

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    My MythTV HowTo
  2. Re:Hard habit to break. by digitalchinky · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ok a lot off topic, so the tinfoil hats wont believe me, but I swear this is true! Somewhere back in 97 the place I was working at had been tasked with recording various video streams coming from different asian countries - anyway, their techs usually spend 15 minutes setting things up before the head honcho's pop up and start doing the business - one time the techs were watching a porno in the background, joking around they pointed the camera at it for a few minutes... Like good little collection staff, we recorded everything (including that)

    Had a few safe draws full of the most boring idiots talking to each other about inane government crap.

    Anyway, a year or so later we had a visit from a few high ranking civil servants, and an army General - aside from the flashy lights of the officer fascination panels, they wanted a quick demo of video conference. One of the guys grabbed a tape at random... And you can guess the rest :-)

    Fortunately generals have a sense of humor too.

    The guy who did it is now flying in the back of P3C orions out of Adelaide. (This last paragraph will confirm it for those in the know - I was there :-)

    SBRS was the coolest place to work!