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Pirated software used to create help content in Microsoft's Windows XP
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UPDATE: Microsoft's hyprocracy is even funnier than Tom's Article suggests..
als ik op CNN lees lijkt het wel een verkoop campagne:
i don't see it.. daarom maak ik dit topic aan, en omdat nog geen topic hierover ben tegengekomen
Pirated software used to create help content in Microsoft's Windows XP
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News-Source and Full Story: www.tomshardware.comBy Wolfgang Gruener, Senior Editor - Tom's Hardware
Chicago (IL) - Members of a former software cracking group have discovered that audio files created with one of its cracked programs are distributed with each copy of the Windows XP operating system, possibly exposing Microsoft to a large-scale copyright infringement lawsuit.
The content in question can be found on every computer with Windows XP as operating system installed. Nine WAV audio files located in the folder " "Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav" in the Windows installation directory include a signature of "Deepz0ne", a member of former cracking group "Radium". If the files are opened not with an audio player, but with a HEX editor or simply in Windows' own text editor Notepad, the last line displays as "000-04-06 IENG Deepz0ne ISFT Sound Forge 4.5".
A source confirmed to Tom's Hardware Guide, that the signature is "authentic for the cracked version of Sound Forge 4.5" and relates to the cracker Deepz0ne. "The Radium group has been dissolved about four years ago, but still meets every week in a casual manner," the source said. "One of the members circulated the information at a birthday part last weekend and then pitched the story apparently to Germany's PC Welt magazine," he said. PC Welt published the story the same day.
Independantly verified and picture credit Sniperkilla
UPDATE: Microsoft's hyprocracy is even funnier than Tom's Article suggests..
dus MS is ook niet zo braaf als men altijd had gedacht. zal MS nou een flinke boete moeten betalen voor iedere XP kopie dat is gemaakt? en waarom begint MS plotseling te blaten dat Linux 228 pattenten schend? om een vergelijking te maken tussen de twee?Ballmer (Microsoft Executive), speaking in Singapore at Microsoft's Asian Government Leaders Forum, said that Linux violated more than 228 patents. He did not provide any detail on the alleged violations, which the Linux community disputes.
"Someday, for all countries that are entering the WTO (World Trade Organization), somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property," he added.
als ik op CNN lees lijkt het wel een verkoop campagne:
dit heeft er toch niets mee te maken?"We think our software is far more secure than open-source software. It is more secure because we stand behind it, we fixed it, because we built it. Nobody ever knows who built open-source software," he added.
