Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

So you are assuming that commercial code is somehow better than UNIX/GNU code? Having worked at a few commercial software companies (except for IBM, always hired to port code from MS-DOS/Windows to Unix) I can tell you that the commercial code is full of ugly hacks and undocumented modifications, among comments (when they actually exist---the first company I mentioned above had, as part of their coding standards, mandated that no comments be added to the code) relevant only to the original code. At the second company I mentioned, the core of the product was written and maintained by *one guy* and only *one guy* because no one else in the company could understand the code. I saw the code in question and yes, I could see why no one else wanted to touch this code. So code quality is just as bad (or worse) in commercial products.