On 28/02/2011 09:07 AM, scott wrote:
>> Not unexpected, except for the bit that all the developers have all of
>> the Windows source code available. I'm rather surprised it hasn't leaked
>> already, if it has been the case for that long.
>
> Maybe they modify some random part of the code for each person who
> checks it out - so if it ever got leaked they know who stole it :-)

I was thinking maybe they inserted a faulty gene for the synthesis of 
lysine, so if the code ever escaped into the wild it would slip into a 
coma and die...

> But seriously, this is totally the opposite of the company I work for,
> where it seems to be to hide everything from everyone unless they have a
> real good reason for wanting to see it and a few random managers agree
> that you can see it.

Don't you just love the way this stuff is totally secret, but to access 
it you just need the approval of a bunch of people arbitrarily chosen at 
random?

It's like the story Feynmen told of an army general who's stuff was so 
secret that he had to get a specialist safe craned in... but he didn't 
bother to change the default combination. (??!)

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