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Microsoft Documentation Declared Unfit For US Consumption
anomalous cohort writes "Washington DC judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly announced during the ongoing Microsoft antitrust hearings that their documentation is unfit for US consumption. This is relevant in an antitrust hearing as poor documentation on how to inter-operate with Microsoft's products is seen as an unfair barrier to entry for companies who compete with Microsoft. Others see this as yet another example of their crumbling hegemony or indolence as their empire burns."
yet another example of their crumbling hegemony or indolence as their empire burns.
Gets a story posted for it, yet somebody being like "I'm not sure OSS would help in this particular instance because " gets -1 troll/-1 flamebait. Here's one for you Linux fanboys: most OSS fucking sucks and the documentation sucks even harder. Microsoft documentation, with all it's flaws beats the shit out of most of your self indulgent garbage.
AC out.
I must be missing something here, but writting software to run on windows is as easy as it gets. If you want to integrate with non-windows machines just use webservies which are fully documented by MS and various other sources since SOAP and http are both standard protocols. I refuse to pay attention to any Anti-trust investigations into MS unless Apple is put to the same scrutiny. Besides being more sucessfuly at it, what does MS do that Apple doesn't do when it comes to making your OS the dominate platform? Maybe Apple should try selling it's OS to hundreds of diffrent PC manufacturers instead of hoarding all the hardware sales to themselves.
Funny that the goverment cannot even get there documentation straight in the constitution for 221 years and everyone still argues over that to be made clear. Of course a quote from Family guy to make my point. "You think the language in the second amendment is clear enough you know about the right to bear arms. Of course it's clear; Every American has the right to hang a pair of bear arms on their wall. How can that be misconstrued?"
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Never take anything ArsTech writes. It's often garbage masquerading as fiction that smells like last week's trash in back of Mel's Diner. I.e., summary suxor (as usual).