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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Mike N.
date: 2007-03-05 23:24:04
subject: Re: Microsoft stole OS X code for Vista?

From: Mike N. 

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:13:18 -0500, Rich Gauszka
 wrote:

>CC: I wish I was. Over the next two years our team copied over 600,000
>lines of INTERCAL code from the Apple disk into the Windows Longhorn
>code-base.

  While that's good reading, it is not credible in any sense of the
imagination.  Even BG could not be that stupid.   Nobody wants to add crap
like that to a modern code base.

   That being said, I believe MS would not hesitate to co-opt any design or
idea not locked down by patent or NDA that it gets its hands on.

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