On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote:

> Things like that are Megalo$0ft's favourite "trick"! Here's what Pat
> Villani (the author of DOS/C on which our kernel is based) wrote about the
> Microsoft's love to undocumented features:
>
> > there is constant debate over Microsoft's use of undocumented features
> > in MS-DOS, Windows and now Windows95. In all fairness to Microsoft, I've
> > seen other operating systems that also have undocumented interfaces. My
> > opinion is that programmers should avoid these whenever possible.
> > However, Microsoft did go to extremes to hide key features and I fault
> > them for this. You don't go out of your way to hide these key features
> > unless you are actively trying to lock out competition.
>
> So the result is: "Ein Volk, ein Reich (Microsoft), ein Führer (William
> Henry Gates III)!" :-(

Hmm -- that won't stop you using MS Windows though...
User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227

Think before you write, such comments can only be counter-productive, as
such comparisons invoke Godwin's law so the thread is over
http://www.killfile.org/faqs/godwin.html

Bart



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