Doug McGarrett wrote:
I would agree that M/S has certain deficiencies that they know about, but I sincerely doubt that any bugs are deliberately written into their software. I understand that XP has something like 50 MILLION lines of code. If you have ever programmed anything, and I have, altho it might have been only a few hundred lines at a time, you know that bugs are inevitable.
Some of the things MS has deliberately done, are extremely bad software engineering. Back in the mid 90's when they were being sued for bundling IE, they claimed it was part of the operating system and could not be removed, without crippling the operating system. At that time, IE was just an app, just like Netscape. However, when W98 came out, IE was deeply embedded in the OS. This means that flaws in IE can become flaws in the OS, with serious consequences. Further, you may want to read up on how Windows 3 tested to see if it was running on DR-DOS and then created an error message. This was done entirely to make users think DR-DOS was incompatible with Windows, even though it worked fine with it. Another "bug" was similar test code in MSCDEX CD-ROM drivers, which if run under OS/2 would also "fail". Bypass those few lines of code that tested for OS/2 and they worked fine. MS also has a history of deliberate incompatibility, sometimes even with it's own older products. All the above is well documented in the trial transcripts and elsewhere, and shows MS's contempt for it's own custormers. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com