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Re: MS internal network compromised
Gentlemen,
Please stop this.
During 1996 I worked at Mainsoft porting OLE2, regedit and almost every
other piece of the Microsoft development environment to various Unixes.
The source code is of such uniformly poor quality that no open source
effort would accept it as the basis for any development. You know about
all those Microsoft Press books like "Code Complete" and "Writing Solid
Code"? Those books were in fact written in protest against the shoddy
development practices in place at Microsoft. Wait till you see some of
this code - its really arcane.
Regards,
- yba
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
>
> > Moreover, they don't have to prove anything. Just the fact that developers
> > of project X will be engaged in legal battles instead of developing code,
> > will be enough to drive volonteers and donations (especially from
> > commercial entities that want to benefit from the end result) off and will
> > essentially make project success very hard if possible. Professionally
> > made litigation can be very powerful weapon. Especially one with
> > substantial base like existance of really stolen code in the same
> > direction.
>
> But if MS threatens an open-source project that it will pursue legal
> battles against it, it will have to do that in public. If it repeats that
> threat, it will get a lot of bad publicity. In Israel, Microsoft has an
> hegmoney because of the better Hebrew support, but that's not the case in
> the Latin-alphabet countries where most of MS revenue is made. So, I think
> it has a lot to lose, and too little to gain.
>
> Besides, MS programmers will also have to attend courtrooms and stuff like
> that, and MS isn't flooded with _programming_ talent either. (I'm sure it
> has a fair share of legal talent, but nowadays, who doesn't? :-)).
>
> Sorry for the double post.
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
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