Microsoft acknowledges that some of the code in the Clustering services of MSN China is actually copied

December 17 Morning News, Microsoft yesterday for the poly-cool plagiarism apology, but has not made a more detailed description of the matter. At the same time, Plurk has not further disclosed details of plagiarism. If this event stays at the current stage, the source code leak path may be a mystery. Microsoft has been labeled with a copy. In the face of Plurk's accusations, Microsoft yesterday admitted that "part of the code is really a copy" of the Clustering services launched by MSN China. In fact, prior to this, Plurk has made the screen comparison and some code comparison screenshots of the two public. Plurk in an official statement that this is not a simple interface plagiarism, the 80% code is identical to the Plurk, including customized functions, CSS files, and all the client's program code. The question is, what way does poly get a lot of Plurk source code? After the above incident, MSN China and the clustering of cool outsourcing network together to keep silent, did not disclose more of the specific circumstances involved in plagiarism, so that the storm more put on a layer of mysterious cloak. "Out of the software workshop" author, famous programmer Lu Jianwei told Sina Science and technology, generally speaking, want to get the other side of the source code has three main ways: first, through search engines, technical community, such as to find the source of external disclosure, the second is through the site to access the source code; Csdn and founder of the programmer, Shantao, agreed, adding that some kind of decompile could get the source code, but it was very difficult. Shantao, after a preliminary analysis of the Plurk page, points out that it is not difficult to get the code for the client and part of the script, but it is not possible to get the entire source code including the server side. Shantao speculated that perhaps Plurk used some open-source code, or that some of the source code had been exposed. But in Sina Science and Technology survey, did not find Plurk source code in the online public. Huang Shaolin, familiar with the internet industry across the strait, also said that, according to its knowledge Plurk has not disclosed the source code, in the current grasp of information, it is not clear how the two sides can be so aware of each other's source code. Plurk has already published three evidence screenshots can be seen, the alleged plagiarism of the source code has more than 60 lines, and Plurk is said that the three screenshots of the code is only from "hundreds of examples randomly picked out", so you can see the whole code of the size of plagiarism. And at present the situation that gathers the cool subcontractor to disclose also is not consistent, regarding the number of the code that involves plagiarism has "hundreds of lines" The argument, also has "thousands of lines" the argument. But obviously there is a distinct difference from the Plurk. MSN China This February officially launched at that time also called Mclub's cool service, there is a media once to imitate Plurk as the characteristics of the introduction of this service. At the beginning of December, the Plurk service began to pay attention to foreign media, then detonated the condemnation of Taiwan's website, and eventually led to Microsoft headquarters concerned about the matter and apologized.