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In a surprising yet increasingly common move, Microsoft has quietly dismantled its team dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).  The decision, communicated via email to the affected employees on July 1, cited “changing business needs” as the reason for the layoffs. While the exact number of employees impacted remains unclear, the team’s lead didn’t … Continued

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In a surprising yet increasingly common move, Microsoft has quietly dismantled its team dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).  The decision, communicated via email to the affected employees on July 1, cited “changing business needs” as the reason for the layoffs. While the exact number of employees impacted remains unclear, the team’s lead didn’t … Continued

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        • radivojevicEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Did anyone ever do anything with it? It probably helped emulators I guess, depending on what code leaked.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            4 months ago

            It makes things worse for projects like emulators, because of any of the leaked code makes its way into their project, they can get sued. Even if it just looks like they used it to develop it, they can get sued. It’s not worth the risk, so projects like emulators will avoid that like the plague.

            • radivojevicEnglish
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              4 months ago

              No, I don’t mean copying code. I mean understanding windows api calls, and how the system works.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                4 months ago

                Right, but if your code happens to look similar to Windows code (which it will), you’re open to copyright takedowns, even if you didn’t copy a single line. Your best defense is saying you never looked at it.

                  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    4·
                    4 months ago

                    That’s literally how it works w/ WINE development. Here’s something very related to it on the WINE forums:

                    The source code was leaked, not released. Using it would be illegal, which is why I have deleted the links you included in your post. Do not post such things again, or you will be banned.

                    It’s a poison pill for WINE to use leaked source code, so the WINE developers have a strict policy against it. I’m guessing most other FOSS projects in the space feel the same way.