Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code

[William Ray Wing]

> On Jan 15, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
> 
> On 1/14/2016 3:55 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
>> But, when you have almost infinitely deep pockets, like
>> Google, you don't need to create *everything* yourself, no,
>> you simply wait for someone else to build it, then wait a
>> little longer for them to market it successfully, and when
>> it's juuuusssst starting to turn a profit, you swoop in,
>> purchase it, and then you drive that "money train" at full
>> speed until its wheels fall off!
>> 
>> And if the owners refuse to sell, no problem, you offer
>> their customers the same services at bargain basement
>> discounts -- then they'll have no choice but to sell, or
>> face bankruptcy. Yep, just another tactic of economic
>> warfare.
> 
> Hmm, sounds like they're stealing plays from Micro$oft.
> 
> Emile
> 

What Micro$oft was actually sued for was worse.  They would approach a small company: “We like your product/technology, we think we are interested in buying you out, but we want to see your code to be sure it is modular/well-documented/etc.”  Then, after looking over the code: “Well, it actually doesn’t fit our plans.  Sorry.”  Six months or so later, essentially identical stuff would turn up in a Micro$soft product.

-Bill