full-disclosure - Re: W2K source "leaked"?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402151701520.16648-100000@kepler.acns.bethel.edu>
From: b-nordquist at bethel.edu (Brent J. Nordquist)
Subject: Re: W2K source "leaked"?

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Nomen Nescio <nobody@...um.com> wrote:

> ,----
> | user@...t:~> grep gnu files.txt | head
> |     19282  07-26-00 01:41   win2k/private/genx/ie/inc/gnumakefile
> [...]
> `----
> 
> WTF?

Evidence is growing that the leak was from Mainsoft, to whom Microsoft 
gave the source in order to work on Unix ports.  GNU makefiles would make 
sense in that context.

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