"Patrick Elliott" <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote in message
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> somebody wrote:
> > "Patrick Elliott" <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote in message
> > news:4959520b$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> >> Apparently the source for Windows 7 Beta has been leaked via
Bittorrent.
> >>
> >
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Devs-Get-Early-Taste-of-Windows-7-Beta-Via-File-Sharing-Leak-65646.html
> >
> > Where are you getting the "source"?

> "However, the latest code for the new OS appears to be available for
> download now through file-sharing utilities."

> Since when is "binaries" the same as "code", since that is the only
> other interpretation of that sentence that makes sense at all. Mind, its
> possible the author is too stupid to know the difference, but...

Code can mean anything. There's "binary/machine code", there's "source
code", there's "ASCII code", there's "Goedel code"... etc. "Source" has to
be explicit, to mean anything human readable, as "code" by itself implies
something "cryptic" (a more precise information theory definition exists).

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