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

Re:See the code, be the code

[Spy der Mann]

And when you've glanced at it, you've doomed yourself and your Open Source company from ever using you as a developer ever again.

That's right. Who would hire a developer whose mind became infected with spaguetti code?

Re:Some examples...

[dedazo]

• /* This code makes the stuff look like the Windows shell, because I'm incapable of innovating. Hopefully it doesn't reproduce the bugs */
• /* This doesn't really work, but I ship early and often. Maybe no one will notice. */
• /* This doesn't work either, but windoze is teh suxx0rz */
• /* I'm sure this infringes on some copyright, but it doesn't matter. It's OK because I want it to be */
• /* I can't get laid but my random number generator is teh roxx0rz */
• /* This is where we initiate a gratuitous TCP connection */
• /* This looks ugly but noone will notice anyway, fonts in Linux look like shit */
• /* Let's link to this nifty library and then forget about it when someone finds a hole in it */
• /* This seems to segfault in my machine, hopefully not yours. Hopefully */
• /* I'm so cool */