Re: [ossig] Secret Windows Code Leaked On Internet

[Gan Sze Kai <gansk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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This is message I received from one of my news letter (http://www.planet-source-code.com). But when I try to read the page, it had been removed, :<

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Julian Gomez wrote:

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:10:22PM +0800, Uwe Dippel spoke thusly:

(snip)

  

With the best of intention, once you know a solution to a given problem it
is very hard to 'forget' that solution on purpose, in order to write one
that is not derived from the first one.
    

You are making the assumption that there is *only* one solution.

  

The programmer hired by me and knowing about 'that secret sys_call' will
be less productive than the one untouched; because the latter doesn't need
time to forget and won't while time away thinking: 'what a bunch of
buggers not to permit me to use this.'
    

Again, I think you're making the assumption that said secret sys_call is
the better method in which to solve the problem. But I haven't followed
this thread closely.

  

who's still waiting for the first reports of code quality. Would be fun 
to know that they have trunks of dead code lying around for the simple
purpose that the compilation dies once it is removed !
    

So? A number of major OSS projects have got dead code lying around. Samba,
Linux kernel, Apache etc. A source untar of samba-2.2.8a, with a trivial
find of all *.c files; including comments == 250,000+ lines. Assuming
150,000 lines are comments, that's 100,000 lines of code.

When you take into account that code lying around can be due to:

o  Ex-programmers quitting a project.
o  Certain portions being too hard to read/parse.
o  Making changes causing unwanted breakage in critical portions.
o  Scheduled code overhaul/rewrite in the near future.
o  Backwards compatibility.

I think its completely understandable, if not completely desirable.


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