3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
4:02 p.m.
On 3 June 2013 17:05, Andrew Hoerter <amh at pobox.com> wrote:
On 6/3/13, Sean Conner <spc at conman.org>
wrote:
Heh. Yes indeed. I knew Geoff Chappell slightly online, the main
uncoverer of the obfuscated code that lost MS the lawsuit and won DR
hundreds of millions in damages.
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Linux, with its anti-ABI compatability, is at
one end of the scale. At
the other end of the scale is Microsoft, which retains *bugs* because of
software that relies upon the buggy behavior.
... in addition to purposefully including bugs to set back the
competition (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code>).