"The probe into how portions of code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 became widely available on the Internet last week shoved Mainsoft and its work into an unfamiliar prominence. References to Mainsoft appeared within portions of leaked code and in an accompanying file, according to computer security experts who have seen the code. What role, if any, Mainsoft may have played in the leak is not known, but the company has much at stake in the legal investigation," according to the Mercury News today.
Comment: this story does not seem to have gone anywhere in the past week, when BetaNews ran a story: Windows Source Leak Traces Back to Mainsoft. This reported that "The leaked code includes 30,915 files and was apparently removed from a Linux computer used by Mainsoft for development purposes" and: "Clues to the source code's origin lie in a 'core dump' file, which is left by the Linux operating system to record the memory a program is using when it crashes. Further investigation by BetaNews revealed the machine was likely used by Mainsoft's Director of Technology, Eyal Alaluf."
But it would be amusing if the Windows code leak did turn out to be the result of Linux crashing.
