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Microsoft finally posts the stolen source

Posted on December 10, 2009 at 13:18 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

A month ago, I wrote about Microsoft pulling a utility that apparently contains stolen open source code. The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool lets you put a bootable copy of the Windows 7 installation media on a USB drive.

Word comes from Rafael Rivera, who first noticed the transgression, that – one month later – Microsoft has finally done what it said it would do, and posted the source code.

Why the delay? Lots of conjecture. So far, as best I can tell, no hard facts.

Windows News GPL, stolen code, Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool

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