>And also, Microsoft claims to love open source so then I guess they'll love how open this source code is now that it's passed around on BitTorrent.

One can love open-source and still be against license violations. What a warped world view.

He was obviously joking.

I mean, he uses the term "OG Microsoft source code". He's just a kid.

That's some serious reach.

This sounds like a joke.

I'm hereby revoking your license to downvote my blissful freedom of expression, thereby messing with my pursuit of happiness, causing stress!

(Marshal! To the yard! Switch that ugly element out of my train of thought!)

Wait, so is this something new, or just a re-release of whatever was going around on the net for years that was called the WinXP source?

Oh there's a lot of stuff like this floating around.

Important source code acquired and leaked by a script kiddie who has zero clue how valuable it is. Probably uploading and posting it to some small forum, where everybody else has even less clue.

Then it can take years until an actually knowledgeable person stumbles upon it and makes it known to the world.

One can get a list of files included without ever downloading any content (e.g. from the command line) and based on that, it looks like a troll trying to ride on the current interest. Happens all the time.

It seems that the list of files doesn't include anything that appears new (there were reports about the older sources leaked before and the list matches these), but includes the high troll insanity material about prominent "control" via "vaccinating the world".

The creator also included a bunch of wild conspiracy theory stuff in the torrent as well about Bill Gates and vaccinations etc which blows the torrent size out by a fair chunk.