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Re: [LUG] M$ Threatens To Sue Asia-For Running Linux!



Simon Waters wrote:

Most people have no clue who wrote most Microsoft software, not even Ballmer it seems! Indeed you have to dig around for Easter eggs in some products to find the list of authors - geez what happens to code inspection.

Considering the kind of stuff which makes it into these programs as "Easter eggs" how can anyone be sure that there isn't any malicious code in there too. (Also with a convoluted "triggers".) It's probably rather less involved to alter a spreadsheet to slightly corrupt data than to put a flight simulator program into one.

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