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jokes, and even a brag hidden among the code. "Coded inline because we're gods," reads one note in Word's source code. There are also dozens of comments referring to elements of the code as hacks ...

Mozilla’s open source software developers quickly jumped on a supposedly critical series of Javascript vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser, only to find the hack, presented over the weekend at ...

March 2014, with MicrosoftComputer History MuseumIsPublish initial MS-DOS and Word source ... code, the people involved in the development It was revealed that the comments of the leftover joke ...

In fact, Sprigman thinks this joke-stealing code could work for other industries struggling with how to balance creativity and copyright issues, including the music and tech industries.