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you have not follow ReactOS at all if u have, you will found it was never talk about "leaked Windows source code", it was about how some devloper

use IDA and wich metof that should be use and how.

It seems, that your ReactOS guys don't like to remember of saome details from Janurary. Alex had write a nice 'Open letter' to the ReactOS

developers, which was posted by Hartmut to the mailing list. This mail was removed from the list archive. I attach this mail at the end of this

post. I ask again, Magnus are you one of the persons, which are hide by XXXX?

part 1 of the deleted mail from the list:
http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2006-January/007472....

Hi,

I post here a mail which Alex has sent to the 'inner circle' of ReactOS.

- Hartmut

An Open Letter to All:

Hello, I would appreciate if you carefully read this email in its
entirety, out of respect for myself and my work and my existence as a
human being. Make sure to read till the end... I may have started out a
bit inflammatorially, and I apologize, I am much more humble onwards.

Over the course of the last few days, I have received messages from some
of you notifying me of some very disturbing news, which violate the
basic principles of a fair "trial" and free speech. I have heard, among
other things, that my account in the ML has been put on moderation to
avoid me saying certain things. I have heard that Hartmut has been
comissioned, all by himself, to review our(my?) code, being the absolute
and sole authority on what is "ok" and what is not "ok". Finally, I
heave heard of underground discussions involving almost all project
members but myself, in which accusations being made against me. I do not
know how much this is true, how much I have misunderstood, and how much
is gross exaggeration, but I am highly worried by these acts, which
seem, as one of you put it, "as if I am being set up". By silencing my
right to speak freely on the ML, and deliberating in a closed session
without my presence, and assigning the accuser as the reviewer, you are
not giving me a chance to defend myself and say my side of the story. In
this trial, you are acting both as jury, judge and accuser. This is
unfair to me.

Therefore, I have decided to email you all with my side of the story. I
fear there is a lot of misinformation going around, and I plan to fix
this. Since this email will remain private to developers, I will make no
attempt in hiding any part of the truth. This is not a "threat", as
XXXXX tried to point out on the ML. If you consider the truth a threat,
then that is worrysome to me. I would like to start out by something
that I have told some of you a long time ago...

This project has been the motivating source behind my life for the last
two years. It has been both my drug and my medcine, both my withdrawal
aid and my addictive substance. It has been the source of great joy,
sadness and experience, both technical, spiritual and social. This
project has given me the chance to work on something great that I truly
believe in, something which kept me going in times where I could've
easily taken my life. Poverty, starvation, breakups and diseases
afflicted me these last two years, but ReactOS kept me alive. Not only
through the technical and code-related activites in its development, but
also through the great friends which I have made. XXXXX, XXXXX, and
somewhat XXXXX and XXXXX stand out among some of the great friends which
I have made during this time. I don't think anythign will change the
great friendship that has developed between XXXXX and myself, and XXXXX
and I have always been there for each others, all while discussing
private life issues, coding and politics and public relations. Although
not in the same depth, I have also enjoyed friendships with all others
of you, and often spent time helping you out, while other times, you
were the ones doing the helping. The late night debugging sessions with
XXXXX were particularly fun, as well as the endless race/lock contention
discussions with XXXXX . In all this time, there have been fights,
misunderstandings, flames and harsh words, just like there have been
compliments and good teamwork.

In exchange for everything that ReactOS brought to me, I gave it
everything I had. From a technical point of view, all "ego" aside, I do
think that I am among the top contributors in this project. I don't mean
to undermine anyone by saying this, and I know that a good set of icons
can matter as much as an API implementation, but in terms of hours of
work, quantity and quality do mean something. From the CIA logs, in this
year, "ion" has done 837 commits. The project total is 7826. This is
second to XXXXX, which has been doing just as much work (if not more),
at 907 commits. These numbers speak for themselves in the quantity of
work that I have put in this project. Apart from actual coding, I have
also taken on the responsability of the IRC channel, in which I have
tried to be present at least 10 hours a day (at the keyboard). During
this time, I have guided and helped users and developers alike, and have
been almost an encylopedia of knowledge for anyone that has asked. These
past weeks, I had about 10 PMs an hour, even from first-time users. It
is almost as if it had become common knowledge that for any problem,
Alex should have the solution. Now certaintly, there have been certain
issues with this, and sometimes I got myself a bit carried away by all
this. Some complained about the jokes of "godhood" and "being all that",
and whenever users went on that line again, I tried to be modest and
respect the wishes of the developers that were offended. The reason I
wrote these last two paragraphs is because XXXXX made an assertion that
I have some wish to "hurt the project". As I have already told him my
love for ReactOS and how far I am willing to go for it, and he even
acknowledged it, I have trouble understanding why he might have said
something like this. Let there be no mistake, this project is my life's
work. I have paid a dear price for it, both financially (considering all
ReactOS-related purchases and trips, the total is about 2000$), and
socially. I have lost an entire year of school because ReactOS became so
important for me, that I stopped going to school and failed 3 classes,
just so I could write more code, help more people, and help the project
progress.

Why then, would I try to hurt any of the people behind this project, or
the project itself?