O ran xerox mandou o link para o artigo no kuro5hin com uma análise superficial da fonte do win2k vazada na semana passada. O texto concentra-se nos comentários deixados no código pelos programadores...
Curse words: there are a dozen or so "fucks" and "shits", and hundreds of "craps". Some dissatisfaction with the compiler is expressed in private\shell\shell32\util.cpp:
// the fucking alpha cpp compiler seems to fuck up the goddam type "LPITEMIDLIST", so to work
// around the fucking peice of shit compiler we pass the last param as an void *instead of a LPITEMIDLIST
...
While surprisingly informal, there are limits to how far the programmers go. There are no derogatory references to Microsoft or Windows themselves. Bill Gates is never mentioned. There are no racist or homophobic slurs. I saw only one drug reference.
private\shell\ext\tweakui\genthunk.c:
* CallProc32W is insane. It's a variadic function that uses
* the pascal calling convention. (It probably makes more sense
* when you're stoned.)
... por isso não quem trabalha na concorrência ou pretende fazer algum tipo de engenharia reversa das coisas da M$ pode ler sem medo.
O autor diz que não encontrou nenhuma surpresa. A parte produzida recentemente foi classificada de excelente e não acharam partes de código livre no meio do win2k.
In short, there is nothing really surprising in this leak. Microsoft does not steal open-source code. Their older code is flaky, their modern code excellent. Their programmers are skilled and enthusiastic. Problems are generally due to a trade-off of current quality against vast hardware, software and backward compatibility
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