This, too, will blow over, eventually. Microsoft will probably release a few dozen service packs, and that'll be about it. Don't get me wrong, it IS serious and they'll hunt down whoever's responsible.
But I don't see this being the end of anything, nor damaging the oss community... The only thing damaged here may be Microsoft's rep, that's all.
When the HL2 leak happened, I saw a lot of guys on the Internet talking about the leaked code, trying to find it, because they thought that all you had to do was find the code, use some simple command and wham, play the game. Riiiight. But I never understood why the leak was supposed to be a reason for Valve to delay the release of the actual game.
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