On Jan 8, 2006, at 09:12, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
But the work eventually had to be done, didn't it?
Absolutely. But you're thinking about the right thing to do from a product prospective rather than maximizing quarterly profits. Sure, they finally had to clean up that code to get the recent 64-bit code out the door, but they also sat on the money it would have taken to do it in 1994 for a decade, probably at least quadrupling the value of that money. See also Windows security.
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