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

lol

Apparently its "stable" too, supposedly. Too bad that won't help when it 
is finally released, since they will probably take things out, put 
others in, and cause it to be incompatible, thus making you pay for the 
damn thing anyway. :p Assuming you bother buying it, which is pretty 
much a given, if you still haven't found a way to replace 100% of the 
stuff you use with Linux.

-- 
void main () {

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

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Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Apparently the source for Windows 7 Beta has been leaked via Bittorrent.

The SOURCE?!

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Apparently the source for Windows 7 Beta has been leaked via Bittorrent.
> 
> The SOURCE?!

Doesn't look like it. Just binaries, as it has happened with Vista oh so
many times.

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

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Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> > Apparently the source for Windows 7 Beta has been leaked via Bittorrent.
>
> The SOURCE?!

Not the first time it happens.  XP or Vista also had the source "leaked" in its
entirety.  Someone lucky enough may want to turn off Windows Genuine Advantage
and DRM features, compile it and maintain themselves... ;)

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> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > Patrick Elliott wrote:
> > > Apparently the source for Windows 7 Beta has been leaked via Bittorrent.
> >
> > The SOURCE?!

> Not the first time it happens.  XP or Vista also had the source "leaked" in its
> entirety.  Someone lucky enough may want to turn off Windows Genuine Advantage
> and DRM features, compile it and maintain themselves... ;)

  I think that the point was that the article has no mention of the source
code having been leaked.

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                                                          - Warp

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Doesn't look like it. Just binaries, as it has happened with Vista oh so
> many times.

... which seems to have bitten MS in the butt, given the number of 
complaints about things broken in the beta that the general populace thinks 
are still broken in the release versions.

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   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>>> Apparently the source for Windows 7 Beta has been leaked via Bittorrent.
>> The SOURCE?!
> 
> Doesn't look like it. Just binaries, as it has happened with Vista oh so
> many times.

Ah, well. The article writer used "code" more than once.. I tend to 
equate code with source not binaries, so misread that. :p

-- 
void main () {

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

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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...

-- 
void main () {

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

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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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