"Patrick Elliott" <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote in message 
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> 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...
>

I haven't read the article yet, but from what I've heard from other sources, 
all that's leaked is the beta that was going to be publically released in 
just over a week.

Gail

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> "Patrick Elliott" <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote in message
> news:495a6cc0$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>> 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...
>>

Having read the article, there is no way that the writer means source code 
when he talks about code

"So if Microsoft wanted a broad collection of users to have access to the 
code, the company could easily make it freely downloadable and would not 
need to leak it."
"One reason a company might give the code to a selected number of people 
prior to release is to get some positive reaction to build excitement for 
the eventual release,"

Neither of those statements could possibly apply to the source code

Gail

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Gail wrote:
> 
>> "Patrick Elliott" <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote in message
>> news:495a6cc0$1@news.povray.org...
>>>
>>> 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...
>>>
> 
> Having read the article, there is no way that the writer means source 
> code when he talks about code
> 
> "So if Microsoft wanted a broad collection of users to have access to 
> the code, the company could easily make it freely downloadable and would 
> not need to leak it."
> "One reason a company might give the code to a selected number of people 
> prior to release is to get some positive reaction to build excitement 
> for the eventual release,"
> 
> Neither of those statements could possibly apply to the source code
> 
> Gail

Yeah, well. One can always hope for a bigger screw up.. lol

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     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Yeah, well. One can always hope for a bigger screw up.. lol

I'm honestly rather surprised that such things happen so rarely, myself.

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