Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Jul 2006 22:07 UTC
Good as well as bad news for Microsoft on the legal front. Their good news is that a judge has rejected Go Computing's claim that Microsoft used dirty tricks to keep it out of the operating system market. However, their bad news is that an EU committee ruled on Monday that Microsoft failed to comply with a landmark antitrust decision, paving the way for fines of up to 2 million euros a day, a source familiar with the situation said.
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2005-12-06
The 'source code is the best documentation' arguement is garbage. Properly documented protocols is significantly more helpful then lines of code that you have to analyze to figure out what they do. Microsoft didn't provide good documentation for parts of their os that have essentially been a black box and that's why they are getting into trouble. If you believe that source code is enough then let me show you an example why it isn't.
Here's a 'Hello World' program, that by itself is not enough to easily figure out the purpose of the program, written in Brainf--k (use your imagination to fill in the censor):
++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]
>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.
>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.
Edited 2006-07-04 02:33