The leak and frantic P2P sharing of the Windows source code, reported by Reuters, is only the latest in intrusions that spill important intellectual property and trade secrets into the public domain. So many potential suspects exist that finding them may be impossible, suggests Reuters in this story: RPT-Net file-swappers snap up Windows source code
Has the Windows system become too big and unwieldy to be sustained as a trade secret? The sack of Rome did not end civilization, but it ended Roman hegemony and set the stage for the emergence of more complex distributed organizational systems. Of course, there was that uncomfortable interim stage we call the Dark Ages. But, you can't make omelets without breaking eggs.
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