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Despite having read this many times, I never tire of it. Reminds me of another classic, "The Graphing Calculator Story."

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/




Excellent story - well worth the read.

"We wanted to release a Windows version as part of Windows 98, but sadly, Microsoft has effective building security."

Now that would be funny if it came up in the anti trust lawsuit:

"You developed this competitor to a popular application and released it for free. Do you deny that this is anticompetitive?"

"Actually, we didn't develop that application, we didn't fund it, I have no idea where it came from - it just appeared on the CD we shipped Windows on."

"It just... 'appeared'?"

"Yes"

"May I remind you that you're under oath?"




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