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Authored by: Doghouse on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 12:03 PM EDT |
He said that comments aren't part of the compilable code, not that they aren't
part of the source code. To the degree that a jury needs to understand the
issue, he's correct.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: reiisi on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 07:27 PM EDT |
Some compilers for various languages allow comments to be included in the
compiled object. (For debugging purposes and also for legal purposes.) My memory
is a bit fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure the Sun Java compilers allow comments to be
included in the object. If my memory on that is correct, decompiling object that
does not have the comments stripped can get you pretty close to the original
source. (And the problem here is that "almost" business. Mathematical
structure is not the same as physical structure, which is one of the reasons the
SSO argument is completely spurious.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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