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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
