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This was the second article in c't on the program. The first, in October, called it "placebo software"--a catchy appellation that triggered a libel suit and a temporary restraining order. In response to the court challenge, c't's editor, Christian Persson, and one of its writers, Ingo Storm, engaged the services of a software engineer, and together they went through the program line by line to try to plumb its inner workings. Their findings: the one patch of SoftRAM 95 code remotely resembling a compression algorithm never gets used by the program. Moreover, the two subprograms actually...
...least one other researcher has repeated Persson and Storm's software dissection and confirmed their conclusions. "I found exactly what everyone else found," says Oregon's Russinovich. SoftRAM 95's main component, he says, is "little more than copies of the sample programs provided in Microsoft's development kit. The differences are cosmetic...