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That story is ludicrous.
Rafael Rivera (co-author of Windows 7 Secrets..with Paul Thurrott) is the one who started looking into this particular tool. What Rafael found was that the code was EXACTLY stolen right out of an open source application using code published under the GPL. This story makes it seem like Microsoft is publishing this software for the good of the community. The software was already published for the good of the community...I especially liked the part where they said, "likely because of proprietary code they didn't want freely available". Haha...it's pathetic. Microsoft's official response I believe was "this code came from a contractor, this wasn't anything we did on purpose".