to stay on the safe side ...
Stripping comments is antisocial at best. Oh, yes... Microsoft.
Corporations dicking with comments have been a sore spot with me, ever since <now dead> company stripped out a programmer's dedication to his parents. Many 1000s lines of system-level code, when his side project program became a money-generating product, they made it look commercial, and stripped out some comments to be "on the safe side". Reducing the appearance of quality to _their_ usual level was not a good move.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
